id: 159599 accession number: 1996.336 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1996.336 updated: 2024-03-26 02:00:31.361000 Man on a Horse, c. 1860s. Nadar (French, 1820–1910). Albumen print from wet collodion negative; image: 17 x 22.3 cm (6 11/16 x 8 3/4 in.); matted: 35.6 x 45.7 cm (14 x 18 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Robert Hershkowitz and Charles Isaacs 1996.336 title: Man on a Horse title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1860s creation date earliest: 1860 creation date latest: 1869 current location: creditline: Gift of Robert Hershkowitz and Charles Isaacs copyright: --- culture: France, 19th century technique: albumen print from wet collodion negative department: Photography collection: Photography type: Photograph find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Nadar (French, 1820–1910) - artist Nadar (Gaspard-Félix Tournachon) French, 1820-1910 Born Gaspard-Félix 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. Educated at the Collège Bourber, Paris (1833-36), Nadar moved to Lyon, where he studied medicine (1837-38) before continuing his studies at the Hôtel Dieu and the Bicêtre 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. Nadar'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-Eugène 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 Honoré Balzac, Nadar will long occupy a key place in the development of photography. T.W.F. --- measurements: Image: 17 x 22.3 cm (6 11/16 x 8 3/4 in.); Matted: 35.6 x 45.7 cm (14 x 18 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Written in pencil on recto of mount: "Fj 1064" translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: 19th-Century French Portrait Photography from the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2000-05-27T00:00:00 19th-Century French Portrait Photography from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 27-August 9, 2000). title: Cheating Death: Portrait Photography’s First Half Century opening date: 2016-10-22T04:00:00 Cheating Death: Portrait Photography’s First Half Century. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 22, 2016-February 5, 2017). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1996.336/1996.336_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1996.336/1996.336_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1996.336/1996.336_full.tif