The Nadars, a photographic legend

The Nadars

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Angèle

Félix Nadar, between 1872 and 1874

Albumen print from a collodion glass negative, 28.6 x 22.7 cm.
BnF, Prints and Photographs Department, EO-15 (4)-FOL
© Bibliothèque nationale de France
This portrait of an actress done in the early 1870s, at a time when Félix Nadar had lost interest in photography, is a lovely, late example of the persistence of the style of women's portraits he came up with in the 1850s, with draped velvet and shrewd lighting.