The Nadars, a photographic legend

The Nadars

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Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) in an armchair

Félix Nadar, around 1855

Salt-paper print from a collodion glass negative, 21.2 x 16.4 cm.
Paris, Musée d’Orsay, Felix Nadar collection (part of the Marie-Thérèse and André Jammes collection), acquired with the support of the Cultural Heritage Fund, 1991, PHO 1991 2 1
Photo © Musée d’Orsay, dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Patrice Schmidt
This is the very first of all the many portraits of Baudelaire that Nadar took. The poet is posing in Nadar's mother's armchair in the studio on Rue Saint Lazare.