Portrait Of Eugène Delacroix By Nadar C.1858

Portrait of Eugène DELACROIX (1798-1863) French painter, principal representative of Romanticism. Visiting card format 5.5 x 8.7 cm "In 1858, Delacroix went to Félix Nadar who admired the painter so much and wanted to complete the series of portraits of great men that he planned to exhibit the following year at the French Society of Photography The pose is full of authority and the lighting highlights the face well. However, the painter, unhappy with his appearance, asked the photographer to destroy the negative and the prints, which, fortunately, the latter did not do. good" extract Delacroix and Photography, Bnf Sarah Bernhardt, Gustave Courbet, Charles Baudelaire, Eugène Delacroix… All posed in front of Nadar's lens! Real name Félix Tournachon (1820–1910), Nadar is undoubtedly the celebrity photographer of the 19th century. This brilliant visionary and experimenter left his mark on the history of images by becoming the first aerial photographer, but also the artist of sensitive photographic portraiture, at a time of the almost industrial development of this new medium.
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