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NADAR

NADAR

Born6 avril 1820
Died21 mars 1910
LanguageFrench
NationalityFrance
Photographe, dessinateur et peintre. Aéronaute. Ecrivain. Son frère, Adrien Tournachon, peintre de formation et collaborant à son atelier de photographie, se servait du même pseudonyme
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  1. [Photographie] Portrait photographique de Alfred de Vigny
    (Alfred de VIGNY) NADAR [Félix TOURNACHON]

    [Photographie] Portrait photographique de Alfred de Vigny

    Nadar|Paris 1856|6.50 x 10.50 cm|une feuille
    Original albumen carte-de-visite photograph. Salted paper print. One of the first portraits of the poet, who was one of the photographer's first subjects. Rare, like all the first portraits by Nadar of Vigny.
    Photograph mounted on rigid gray cardboard, extracted from a collector's photograph album. In pen in the lower margin, Le Cte Alfred de Vigny, and in the right margin NADAR in capitals.
    One of Nadar's first portraits where his refined style already emerges. "Nadar photographie ses modèles simplement, n'utilisant que la lumière naturelle et zénithale diffusée par les verrières et réfléchie par de grands panneaux mobiles. Les poses à la manière d'Ingres valent surtout pour l'int
    €2,500
  2. [PHOTOGRAPHIE] Portrait photographique de Jules Verne
    (Jules VERNE) NADAR [Félix TOURNACHON]

    [PHOTOGRAPHIE] Portrait photographique de Jules Verne

    Nadar|Paris 1878|6 x 10.50 cm|une photographie
    Original albumen photograph representing Jules Verne, carte-de-visite format, mounted on heavy cardboard from the Nadar studio "51 rue d'Anjou St Honoré".
    Pen annotation on verso, with advertising information for the Nadar studio. Gold medal. Universal Exhibition 1878. Blue stamp; Publisher J. Kuhn, Paris.
    Jules Verne met Nadar in 1861 and the two men became friends, the man left a deep impression on him and his adventures inspired him for Five Weeks in a Balloon [Nadar would join with Jules Verne to create a Society for the encouragement of balloon transport], From the Earth to the Moon and Around the Moon. The author describes him thus in From th
    €2,500
  3. Histoires buissonnières
    NADAR [Félix TOURNACHON]

    Histoires buissonnières

    Georges Decaux|Paris s. d. [1877]|11.50 x 18.50 cm|relié
    First edition.
    Contemporary half bottle-green shagreen binding, spine with five raised bands set with gilt fleurons, some minor rubbing to spine without gravity, marbled paper boards, endpapers and pastedowns of pebbled paper, contemporary binding.
    Some minor foxing without gravity, a pencil library shelf mark on one endpaper.
    Autograph inscription dated and signed by Nadar: "A M. Bertrand de main amie. Nadar. Nov".
    €350
  4. Photographie de Charles Baudelaire les mains dans les poches : "Vu de face, il paraît plus souffrant et plus triste qu'à la précédente épreuve. "
    (Charles BAUDELAIRE) NADAR [Félix TOURNACHON]

    Photographie de Charles Baudelaire les mains dans les poches : "Vu de face, il paraît plus souffrant et plus triste qu'à la précédente épreuve. "Photographic portrait of Charles Baudelaire with his hands in his pockets

    Nadar|Paris 1862|5.10 x 8.50 cm|une photographie

    Extremely rare original photograph showing Charles Baudelaire on albumen paper, contemporary print in carte de visite format, mounted on a board from the Nadar workshop, 35 boulevart (sic) des Capucines; “Photographic portrait for us taken by Nadar. Taken the same day as the previous one, same dimensions, same clothes. The waistcoat is still unbuttoned but Baudelaire hides his hands in the pockets of his trousers. Seen face on, he seems more troubled and sadder than in the previous attempt.” (Ourousof, 1896)
    “Another carte de visite from the same day as the previous no. 41 [...] a contemporary albumen print found in the Musée d'Orsay collections (Provenance: from the Braive collection,

    €6,800
  5. [PHOTOGRAPHIE] Portrait photographique d'Alphonse de Lamartine
    Alphonse de LAMARTINE, NADAR [Félix TOURNACHON]

    [PHOTOGRAPHIE] Portrait photographique d'Alphonse de Lamartine

    Nadar|Paris s. d. [1856]|6.50 x 10.20 cm|une photographie
    Original albumen print photograph depicting Alphonse de Lamartine, in carte-de-visite format, mounted on studio card from Nadar "35 boulevart des Capucines".
    This photograph, taken in 1856, was marketed between 1862 and 1871, as evidenced by the photographer's address on the back of the card.
    Pen annotation on the reverse of the photograph.
    €1,000
  6. Portrait de Edmond Goncourt
    NADAR [Félix TOURNACHON]

    Portrait de Edmond Goncourt

    Goupil & Cie|Paris 1880|24 x 33 cm|une feuille
    Photoglypty from the Galerie contemporaine. Portrait of Edmond Goncourt.
    Mounted sheet on which a photoglypty of 19x24cm has been laid down. Caption at the bottom of the mount: Galerie Contemporaine, 126 boulevard de Magenta. Phot. Goupil et Cie. Cliché Nadar, 51, rue d'Anjou-St-Honoré. Superb condition.
    Handsome portrait of the writer seated, with a fixed and fierce gaze, a cigarette in his right hand, his elbow resting on attributes that represent him.
    Close to a carbon print by its warm and deep tones, photoglypty is a complex photomechanical process of photographic reproduction which the publishing industry used for about 20 years, from 1875 to 1895. Seeking an ideal and
    €500
  7. [PHOTOGRAPHIE] Portrait photographique de Gustave Doré
    (Gustave DORÉ) [NADAR] Félix Tournachon dit NADAR

    [PHOTOGRAPHIE] Portrait photographique de Gustave Doré[PHOTOGRAPHY] Photographic portrait of Gustave Doré]

    Nadar|Paris s. d. [1867]|6.60 x 10.40 cm|une photographie
    Nadar, Paris N.D. (but 1867), 6,6x10.4 cm, photograph

    Original photograph on albumin paper in a visiting card format, laid down on card by Nadar, initialed and with a red border.
    Doré poses with his arm on a fringed chair, the same as in the portraits of Théophile Gautier, Edouard Manet and Alexandre Dumas.
    Manuscript annotation to verso.
    We have not been able to find any copies of this photograph in any of the international public collections.
    €1,200
  8. Les dicts & faicts du chier cyre Gambette le Hutin en sa court
    NADAR [Félix TOURNACHON]

    Les dicts & faicts du chier cyre Gambette le Hutin en sa court [The Sayings & Deeds of the dear sire Gambette the Hutin in his court]

    chés l'auctheur|Paris s. d. [1882]|14 x 19 cm|relié
    first edition of this Rabelaisian style pamphlet directed against Gambetta, one of 300 numbered copies on paper of the Netherlands.
    Binding to open bradel ivory wove, smooth back, red mesh frame compositions painted boards and boards to centers: a bookplate and a monogram on the first front cover and Léon Gambetta dabbling in a bathtub on the second, fragile parchment wrappers preserved and bound in, contemporary binding signed Dodé.
    Nadar handwritten signature under the justification of the draw.
    Book adorned the author of illustrations.
    Provenance: Library of Frederick Lachèvre, bibliographer, specialist in French poetry, with its large bookplate engrav
    €400
  9. La Passion illustrée sinon illustre de N.-S. Gambetta
    NADAR [Félix TOURNACHON]

    La Passion illustrée sinon illustre de N.-S. Gambetta [The Illustrated, if not Illustrious, Passion of N.-S. Gambetta]

    chés l'auctheur|Paris s. d. [1882]|14 x 19 cm|relié
    first edition of this Rabelaisian style pamphlet directed against Gambetta, one of 300 numbered copies on Holland paper.
    Binding to open bradel ivory wove, smooth back, red mesh coaching boards and boards painted in watercolor compositions centers: a bookplate and a monogram on the first front cover and Léon Gambetta embodying Christ crucified, fragile parchment wrappers preserved and bound in, contemporary binding signed Dodé.
    Nadar handwritten signature under the justification of the draw.
    In addition, this copy is enriched with a handwritten correction Nadar pencil in The Passion,     p. 45, to orveitan [sic].
    Book adorned the author of illustrations./
    €400
  10. Quand j'étais étudiant
    NADAR [Félix TOURNACHON]

    Quand j'étais étudiant

    Michel Lévy|Paris 1857|11.50 x 18 cm|relié
    Second edition published one year after the first edition.
    Half fir green shagreen binding with corners, spine with five raised bands set with black fillets decorated with double black compartments embellished with gilt fleurons, slight scratches without any gravity on one joint, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, all edges gilt.
    Autograph inscription signed by Nadar to Madame Dufay.
    Handsome copy.
    €700
  11. Histoire de la peinture en Italie - Exemplaire de Nadar avec son ex-libris "Quand même ! "
    (NADAR) STENDHAL

    Histoire de la peinture en Italie - Exemplaire de Nadar avec son ex-libris "Quand même ! "[History of Painting in Italy – Nadar’s copy with his bookplate "Quand même!"]

    Michel Lévy frères|Paris 1854|11 x 18.3 cm|Relié

    Partly original edition, entirely revised and corrected.

    Half red shagreen binding, spine with five raised bands framed with black fillets, gilt "N" at the foot, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, sprinkled edges, four bookseller's description labels pasted beneath the bookplate on the pastedown, contemporary binding.

    A pleasant copy.

    Provenance: from the library of Nadar with his celebrated engraved bookplate "Quand même !"

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  14. Portrait photographique de Gérard de Nerval
    NADAR [Félix TOURNACHON] (Gérard de NERVAL)

    Portrait photographique de Gérard de Nerval

    Nadar|Paris s. d. [circa 1855]|6.30 x 10.30 cm|une photographie
    [Gérard de NERVAL] Félix Tournachon known as NADAR

    Photographic portrait of Gérard de Nerval
    Nadar | Paris [ca 1855] | 6,3 x 10,3 cm | one photograph
    Original photograph on albumen paper, in carte-de-visite format, mounted on a board from the Nadar studio, depicting Gérard de Nerval.
    “There remains this face on Nadar's photo, which is arguably the most revealing portrait of a man that the darkroom has never held in its night. Nevertheless, this face is Nerval, this intelligent look, a little worried, and above all good and humble. It is this uncared for chinstrap beard, this baldness so unlike the bald skulls of the Louis-Phillipe bour
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  15. Portrait photographique de Charles Baudelaire les mains dans les poches : "Vu de face, il paraît plus souffrant et plus triste qu'à la précédente épreuve. "
    (Charles BAUDELAIRE) NADAR [Félix TOURNACHON]

    Portrait photographique de Charles Baudelaire les mains dans les poches : "Vu de face, il paraît plus souffrant et plus triste qu'à la précédente épreuve. "Photographic portrait of Charles Baudelaire with his hands in his pockets: "Seen face on, he seems more troubled and sadder than in the previous attempt."

    Nadar|Paris 1862|5.10 x 8.50 cm|une photographie
    Photographic portrait of Charles Baudelaire with his hands in his pockets: “Seen face on, he seems more troubled and sadder than in the previous attempt.”
    Nadar | Paris 1862 | photograph: 5.1 x 8.5 cm / board: 6.3 x 10.3 cm |a photograph

    Extremely rare original photograph showing Charles Baudelaire on albumen paper, contemporary print in carte de visite format, mounted on a board from the Nadar workshop, 35 boulevart (sic) des Capucines; “Photographic portrait for us taken by Nadar. Taken the same day as the previous one, same dimensions, same clothes. The waistcoat is still unbuttoned but Baudelaire hides his hands in the pockets of his trousers. Seen face on, he seems more
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  16. Portrait photographique en médaillon de Charles Baudelaire « de trois quarts en redingote noire, ouverte, laissant voir les quatre boutons de son gilet, en haut, non attachés, pour faire place à la main droite plongeant dans la poitrine [...] Le visage glabre, aux cheveux longs est violemment éclairé du côté droit et s'enlève sur un fond noir. La chevelure est soignée. La toilette correcte et sobre. »
    NADAR [Félix TOURNACHON] (Charles BAUDELAIRE)

    Portrait photographique en médaillon de Charles Baudelaire « de trois quarts en redingote noire, ouverte, laissant voir les quatre boutons de son gilet, en haut, non attachés, pour faire place à la main droite plongeant dans la poitrine [...] Le visage glabre, aux cheveux longs est violemment éclairé du côté droit et s'enlève sur un fond noir. La chevelure est soignée. La toilette correcte et sobre. »

    Nadar|Paris 1862|5.80 x 9.30 cm|une photographie
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  17. Carte de visite autographe de Nadar
    NADAR [Félix TOURNACHON]

    Carte de visite autographe de Nadar

    s. d. [circa 1900]|9.50 x 5.50 cm|feuillet recto
    Nadar printed autographed business card on which he added his words: "With best wishes, N."
    Light foxing without gravity.
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  20. Le miroir aux alouettes
    NADAR [Félix TOURNACHON]

    Le miroir aux alouettes

    Michel Lévy frères|Paris 1858|11.50 x 18.50 cm|relié
    Second edition.
    Binding half blue shagreen with corners, back with five nerves lightly browned set with ornate golden dotted triple golden boxes decorated with golden angles typographical reasons, some traces of abrasion on the back, framing of double net gilded on marbled paper boards , guards and contreplats of handmade paper, gilded head, two corners lightly used, contemporary binding.
    Dated and signed autograph dedication by Nadar: "At my old comrade Giraud ..."
    Bibliophile print buffer Aquitaine F. de Maupassant as an bookplate on the title page.
    Rare spots.
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  21. Histoires buissonnières
    NADAR [Félix TOURNACHON]

    Histoires buissonnières

    Maurice Dreyfous|Paris s. d. [1888]|11.50 x 18.50 cm|relié
    Second edition.
    Binding half shagreen cherry with corners, back with five nerves set with ornate golden dotted triple golden and black boxes decorated with golden angles typographical motifs, framing of double net gilded on marbled paper boards, a small tear in head a cut, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, gilded head, two corners lightly used, contemporary binding.
    Dated and signed autograph dedication by Nadar: "To my good and dear friend Giraud ..."
    Bibliophile print buffer Aquitaine F. de Maupassant as an bookplate on the title page.
    Pleasant beautifully drawn copy.
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  22. Quand j'étais étudiant
    NADAR [Félix TOURNACHON]

    Quand j'étais étudiant

    Michel Lévy frères|Paris 1858|11.50 x 18.50 cm|relié
    Second edition.
    Binding half shagreen cherry with corners, back with five nerves set with ornate golden dotted triple golden and black boxes decorated with golden angles typographical motifs, framing of double net gilded on marbled paper boards, a small tear in head a cut, guards and contreplats of handmade paper, gilded head, two corners lightly used, contemporary binding.
    Dated and signed autograph dedication by Nadar: "To my good and dear friend Giraud ..."
    Bibliophile print buffer Aquitaine F. de Maupassant as an bookplate on the title page.
    Pleasant beautifully drawn copy.
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  23. Le monde où on patauge
    NADAR [Félix TOURNACHON]

    Le monde où on patauge

    E. Dentu|Paris 1883|13 x 19 cm|relié
    Original, one of 12 numbered copies on Japan justified and initialed by the author, drawing head Edition.
    Bound in half black morocco, spine with five nerves, when golden tail, flat marbled paper, and guards contreplats of handmade paper, covers preserved, red head, nice bookplate engraved by Felix Bracquemond glued on contreplat elegant modern binding.
    Autograph signed and dated by the author to his friend, the engraver and lithographer Aglaüs Bouvenne.
    Book decorated with illustrations of the author whose coverage.
    Nice copy, with all margins, perfectly prepared and enriched with a beautiful engraved bookplate by Félix Bracquemond.
    Sold
  26. Le Livre & L'Image. Nouvelle Série - N°2 - Avril-Juillet 1910
    NADAR [Félix TOURNACHON] Maxime MAUFRA

    Le Livre & L'Image. Nouvelle Série - N°2 - Avril-Juillet 1910

    Le Livre et l'Image|Paris 1910|18 x 27.50 cm|broché
    First edition. Illustrated cover, printed in red and black, spine with tears but no loss, corners showing traces of wear.
    Collaborations by L. Millanvoy: "Nadar", Henry Eon: "Maxime Maufra", Clément-Janin, Dubray. A brown stain appears in the upper part of page 96, not touching the text.
    Copy lacking the original embossing by Alexandre Charpentier.
    Minimal foxing.
    €40
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