All that remains of this blurred portrait, judged a "failure" because the poet moved, is this one print. The negative has vanished. The artful movement sets it in complete opposition with the artifical conventions of commercial photographic portraits that Baudelaire disdained. This very natural portrait preserves the perspicacity of the poet's gaze and illustrates a note taken with Nadar for his posthumously published book (1911), Charles Baudelaire intime ((An Intimate Portrait of Charles Baudelaire: The Virgin Poet: "1st meeting with Baudelaire. "He advanced, as "handsome as a young God," Banville would have said. Wavy hair blowing, eyes like two coffee-colored gems."