2010.73: Nadar in a balloon gondola (in the studio)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

2010.73

People

Nadar (Gaspard-Félix Tournachon), French (Paris, France 1820 - 1910 Paris, France)

Title

Nadar in a balloon gondola (in the studio)

Classification

Photographs

Work Type

carte-de-visite, photograph

Date

c. 1865

Places

Creation Place: Europe, France, Paris

Culture

French

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/285002

Physical Descriptions

Technique

Albumen silver print

Dimensions

mount: 10.3 x 6.5 cm (4 1/16 x 2 9/16 in.)
image: 8.4 x 5.4 cm (3 5/16 x 2 1/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: recto, bottom right corner of mount: N.
• inscription: verso, center, pre-printed mount: Photographie du Grand Hôtel
  Nadar
  35 Boulevard des Capucines
  
• stamp: verso, bottom center, black ink: Harvard College Library
  From
  The Bequest of
  Evert Jansen Wendell
  1918
• inscription: verso, upper right corner, ink: Nadar (oriented horizontally)
• inscription: verso, top, graphite: Nadar (underlined twice)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Transfer from Special Collections, Fine Arts Library, Harvard College Library, Bequest of Evert Jansen Wendell

Accession Year

2010

Object Number

2010.73

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Exhibition History

• About Face: Artist's Portraits in Photography, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 07/19/1997 - 10/12/1997
• A History of Photography, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/03/2015 - 01/03/2016

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