The Nadars, a photographic legend

The Nadars

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Emmanuel Frémiet

Adrien Tournachon, around 1854-1855

Salt-paper print with a protective coating from a collodion glass negative, 24.6 x 17.3 cm.
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gilman Collection, Purchase, Alfred Stieglitz Society Gifts, 2005 (2005.100.45)
Born into an artistic family, Frémiet was a very famous sculptor who pecialized in animals.