Gaspard-Félix Tournachon, known by the pseudonym Nadar or Félix Nadar, was a French photographer, caricaturist, journalist, novelist and balloonist who was a proponent of heavier-than-air flight. In 1858, he became the first person to take aerial photographs. Photographic portraits by Nadar are held by many of the great national collections of photographs. His son, Paul Nadar, continued the studio after his death.
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Works in Collection
15 works
Baron Isidore Taylor
Nadar (Gaspard-Félix Tournachon)
1872-1875
Champfleury
Nadar (Gaspard-Félix Tournachon)
c. 1860
Edmond About
Nadar (Gaspard-Félix Tournachon)
1858
Eugène Delacroix
Nadar (Gaspard-Félix Tournachon)
c. 1857
Eugène Pelletan
Nadar (Gaspard-Félix Tournachon)
1856-59
George Sand
Nadar (Gaspard-Félix Tournachon)
c. 1864
Jean-François Millet
Nadar (Gaspard-Félix Tournachon)
1856-58
Marie Dumas
Nadar (Gaspard-Félix Tournachon)
c. 1856
Nadar with Eugène Chevreuil on his Hundredth Birthday
Nadar (Gaspard-Félix Tournachon)
1886
Paul Chenavard
Nadar (Gaspard-Félix Tournachon)
1856-58
Pierrot Surprised
Nadar (Gaspard-Félix Tournachon)
1854-55
Rossini
Nadar (Gaspard-Félix Tournachon)
1856
Test Obtained in the Catacombs of Paris Using the Serrin ...
Nadar (Gaspard-Félix Tournachon)
April 1862
Théophile Gautier
Nadar (Gaspard-Félix Tournachon)
1855
Victor Hugo
Nadar (Gaspard-Félix Tournachon)
c. 1870
Exhibitions
11 exhibitionsMar 17, 1937 – Apr 18, 1937
Photography 18391937
243 artists · 1 curator
Aug 18, 1943 – Sep 19, 1943
Action Photography
44 artists · 1 curator
Feb 21, 1945 – May 30, 1945
French Photographs: Daguerre to Atget
23 artists · 2 curators
Nov 29, 1949 – Jan 15, 1950
Roots of French Photography
10 artists · 1 curator
May 27, 1964
Edward Steichen Photography Center
130 artists · 1 curator
Oct 25, 1967
Steichen Gallery Reinstallation
77 artists
Mar 19, 1968 – May 27, 1968
Photography as Printmaking
54 artists · 1 curator
Jul 09, 1969 – Sep 28, 1969
Portrait Photographs
43 artists · 1 curator
Dec 21, 1979
Edward Steichen Photography Center Reinstallation
102 artists · 1 curator
Oct 23, 1980
Reinstallation of the Collection
129 artists
Nov 07, 1985 – Jan 07, 1986
Self Portrait: The Photographer's Persona, 18401985
58 artists · 1 curator