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"inscription": "Written in brown ink on verso: \"Dumas p\u00e8re.\"; in pencil on verso [faded or erased] \"Nadar (5)\"; \"Dumas-5 [?]\"; [and another mark, unclear]",
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"title": "The Year in Review for 1983",
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"title": "Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum",
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"description": "Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty Museum, July 20 - Oct. 10, 1999: \"Nadar Warhol: Paris-New York: Photography and Fame,\" exhibition catalogue p. 57, repr. p. 56. (Also exhibited at The Andy Warhol Museum, Nov. 6, 1999 - Jan. 30, 2000 and the Baltimore Museum of Art, March 12 - May 28, 2000.)",
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"description": "Nadar was a journalist, novelist, cartoonist, balloonist, lithographer, and, beginning in 1849, photographer. Like Brady\u2019s establishments in America, Nadar\u2019s Parisian studio quickly became a center for celebrity photography, selling compelling images of the major political and cultural figures of the time. Nadar avoided symbolic props and elaborate backgrounds; he let his sitters choose their own pose, putting them at ease enough to reveal glimpses of their true character. Dumas, one of France\u2019s most popular authors, wrote The Three Musketeers. The year this portrait was made, he and Nadar were hoping to collaborate on a play, but their only joint production seems to have been this casual, intimate portrait.",
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"citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art, and Tom E. Hinson. Catalogue of Photography. [Cleveland, OH]: The Museum, 1996.",
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"citation": "Turner, Evan H. \"Year in Review for 1983.\" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 71, no. 2 (1984): 38-79.",
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"biography": "Nadar (Gaspard-F\u00e9lix Tournachon) French, 1820-1910\r\n\r\nBorn Gaspard-F\u00e9lix Tournachon in Paris, Nadar is probably the best known French photographer. His portraits of celebrities and public figures help define our impression of France in the second half of the 19th century; his panache in conducting his business helped popularize photography.\r\n\tEducated at the Coll\u00e8ge Bourber, Paris (1833-36), Nadar moved to Lyon, where he studied medicine (1837-38) before continuing his studies at the H\u00f4tel Dieu and the Bic\u00eatre in Paris. He wrote satires and essays and drew caricatures (his pseudonym derived from his barbed wit aimed against the establishment) for a number of Paris publications, eventually founding several of his own, and was a highly visible figure in the city's cultural and artistic life. Learning photographic technique from Adophe Bertsch and Camille d'Arnaud, Nadar founded a studio in 1854. Twenty years later his son Paul, also a photographer, became director of the business and by 1886 headed the firm. He also worked for a time with his brother, Adrien, who sometimes called himself Nadar jeune, a practice which later prompted Nadar to file a lawsuit.\r\n\tNadar's exploits with aerial balloon photography were of both photographic and historic importance. Below ground, he used artificial light to make surveys of the catacombs and sewers of Paris, novel and highly popular curiosities. With his son Paul as photographer, he is credited with the first photo-interview, conducted with the scientist and color theorist Michel-Eug\u00e8ne Chevreul on his 100th birthday in 1886. Because of the importance of his work and the notoriety of his sitters, among them Franz Liszt, George Sand, Sarah Bernhardt, and Honor\u00e9 Balzac, Nadar will long occupy a key place in the development of photography. T.W.F.",
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