Artist Monograph

Nadar (Gaspard-Félix Tournachon), French

French, 1820–1910

Medium Breakdown

Medium	Works at MoMA	Share
Printmaking	17	70.8%
Sculpture	7	29.2%

Production by Decade

1850s

1860s

1870s

1880s

Physical Scale

Scale bracket	Works	Share
Small (< 30 cm)	21	87.5%
Medium (30–100 cm)	3	12.5%

Range: 9.0 cm → 46.7 cm (largest side)

Acquisition Timeline

Year acquired	Works
1964	5
1968	1
1982	7
1985	2
1988	1
1994	1
2009	7

French Contemporaries

Catalogued Works

MoMA — 24 shown

Title	Date	Medium	Dimensions	Department	Credit line
Philarète Chasles Photograph Acc. 112.1985	c. 1855	Salted paper print from a glass negative	9 1/8 × 7" (23.4 × 18 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Lois and Bruce Zenkel Fund
Théophile Gautier Photograph Acc. 542.2009	1855	Salted paper print	10 1/16 × 8 3/4" (25.6 × 22.2 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Suzanne Winsberg Collection. Gift of Suzanne Winsberg
Eugène Pelletan Photograph Acc. 111.1985	1856-59	Salted paper print from a glass negative	9 3/8 × 6 3/4" (23.8 × 17.3 cm) (irregular) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of Samuel J. Wagstaff, Jr.
Jean-François Millet Photograph Acc. 545.2009	1856-58	Salted paper print	9 1/4 × 7 5/16" (23.5 × 18.5 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Suzanne Winsberg Collection. Gift of Suzanne Winsberg
Marie Dumas Photograph Acc. 543.2009	c. 1856	Salted paper print	9 5/8 × 7 11/16" (24.5 × 19.5 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Suzanne Winsberg Collection. Gift of Suzanne Winsberg
Paul Chenavard Photograph Acc. 544.2009	1856-58	Salted paper print	9 3/4 × 7 1/2" (24.8 × 19 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Suzanne Winsberg Collection. Gift of Suzanne Winsberg
Rossini Photograph Acc. 45.1994	1856	Salted paper print from a glass negative	9 1/16 × 7 3/8" (23.1 × 18.7 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of Paul F. Walter
Eugène Delacroix Photograph Acc. 547.2009	c. 1857	Albumen silver print	9 1/16 × 6 7/16" (23 × 16.3 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Suzanne Winsberg Collection. Gift of Suzanne Winsberg
Edmond About Photograph Acc. 546.2009	1858	Salted paper print	9 3/16 × 7 5/16" (23.4 × 18.6 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Suzanne Winsberg Collection. Gift of Suzanne Winsberg
Alphonse Marie Louis de Prat de Lamartine Photograph Acc. 178.1982.97	1860-69	Albumen silver print	3 1/2 × 2 1/4" (9 × 5.7 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Acquired through the generosity of Shirley C. Burden
Champfleury Photograph Acc. 32.1964	c. 1860	Woodburytype	9 × 7 1/4" (22.8 × 18.4 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Purchase
François Ponsard Photograph Acc. 178.1982.94	1860-70	Albumen silver print	3 1/2 × 2 1/4" (9 × 5.7 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Acquired through the generosity of Shirley C. Burden
George Sand (1804-76) Photograph Acc. 178.1982.95	1860-70	Albumen silver print	3 1/2 × 2 1/4" (9 × 5.7 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Acquired through the generosity of Shirley C. Burden
LE DUC DE MONTPENCIER Photograph Acc. 178.1982.14	1860-70	Albumen silver print (carte-de-visite)	3 1/2 × 2 1/4" (9 × 5.7 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Acquired through the generosity of Shirley C. Burden
Honoré Daumier Photograph Acc. 36.1964	c. 1861	Woodburytype	4 3/4 × 3 3/8" (12.0 × 8.5 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Purchase
Test Obtained in the Catacombs of Paris Using the Serrin Regulator Photograph Acc. 90.1988	April 1862	Albumen silver print from a glass negative	9 7/16 × 7 13/16" (24 × 19.8 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of Paul F. Walter
George Sand Photograph Acc. 34.1964	c. 1864	Woodburytype	9 1/2 × 7 1/2" (24.1 × 19.0 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Purchase
Judith Gautier Photograph Acc. 178.1982.54	1865-75	Albumen silver print	3 1/2 × 2 1/4" (9 × 5.7 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Acquired through the generosity of Shirley C. Burden
NASR-ED-DIN OF PERSIA (1831?-1896) Photograph Acc. 178.1982.29	1865-85	Woodburytype (carte de visite)	3 1/2 × 2 1/4" (9 × 5.7 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Acquired through the generosity of Shirley C. Burden
Victor Hugo Photograph Acc. 1483.1968	c. 1870	Woodburytype	14 1/8 × 10 1/16" (35.8 × 25.6 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Gift of Ralph Culpepper
Baron Isidore Taylor Photograph Acc. 35.1964	1872-1875	Woodburytype	9 1/2 × 7 1/2" (24.1 × 19.0 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Purchase
Edmond de Goncourt Photograph Acc. 33.1964	1872-75	Woodburytype	9 1/2 × 7 1/2" (24.1 × 19.0 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Purchase
Alphonse Daudet Photograph Acc. 178.1982.90	1874-90	Albumen silver print	3 1/2 × 2 1/4" (9 × 5.7 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Acquired through the generosity of Shirley C. Burden
Nadar with Eugène Chevreuil on his Hundredth Birthday Photograph Acc. 548.2009	1886	Albumen silver print	5 11/16 × 4 3/16" (14.5 × 10.6 cm) ⌀c 0.00 cm · ⌀ 0.00 cm · L 0.00 cm · 0.00 kg · seat 0.00 cm	Photography	Suzanne Winsberg Collection. Gift of Suzanne Winsberg