Portrait of Alexandre Dumas
Artist
Nadar [Gaspard Félix Tournachon]
(French, 1820 - 1910)
Date1855
MediumSalt print
DimensionsImage and sheet: 9 5/8 × 7 9/16 inches (24.45 × 19.21 cm)
Mat: 14 5/8 × 12 3/4 inches (37.15 × 32.39 cm)
Mat: 14 5/8 × 12 3/4 inches (37.15 × 32.39 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation
Object number2017.61.25
SignedSigned on image recto, lower right, in black pen: “Nadar / 113 St. Lazare”
Inscribednone
Markingsnone
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DescriptionImage of a man with pursed lips and bushy hair seated with hands crossed over the back of a chair. He wears a dark suit with a vest and high collared shirt.Provenancewith Charles Isaacs Photographs, Inc., New York, NY by 1993;
Purchased from them by Howard Stein (1926-2011) , New York, NY, 2000;
His gift to The Joy of Giving Foundation, New York, NY;
Purchased at their sale The Odyssey of Collecting: Photographs from Joy of Giving Something, Phillips, New York, NY, April 4, 2017, lot 119 by The Hall Family Foundation, Kansas City, MO, 2017;
Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2017.
Purchased from them by Howard Stein (1926-2011) , New York, NY, 2000;
His gift to The Joy of Giving Foundation, New York, NY;
Purchased at their sale The Odyssey of Collecting: Photographs from Joy of Giving Something, Phillips, New York, NY, April 4, 2017, lot 119 by The Hall Family Foundation, Kansas City, MO, 2017;
Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2017.
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