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Tournachon, Adrien
French (1825-1903)

TITLE ON OBJECT: Alphonse de Lamartine

1856
albumen print (?), applied color
57.0 x 45.0 cm.
Gift of Eastman Kodak Company: ex-collection Gabriel Cromer
GEH NEG: 34146
83:0659:0001

Sobieszek, Robert A. --Masterpieces of Photography from the George Eastman House Collections.-- New York: Abbeville Press, 1985. p. 95.//

EXHIBITION HISTORY:
"Era of the French Calotype", US, NY, Rochester, GEH - Brackett Clark Gallery, September 17 -November 28, 1982.//
"Images of Excellence", US, NY, Rochester, GEH - Brackett Clark Gallery, January 1 - April 26, 1987. (Traveled).//

INSCRIPTION: mat verso-(handwritten notations in ink by Gabriel Cromer) "First enlargement of portrait in 1861 (see "Moniteur de la Photographie" 1861 pages 18, etc.) Solar enlarger by Liebert...1864-(see 1st ed. of Photo. en Amerique) One of the first enlargements by Nadar from his famous negative of Lamartine (1790-1869) taken about...Enlargement made about 1865? Same (indecipherable) as my grand mother Cromer equally by Nadar...by Nadar see l'Illustration du 15 april 1933, page 436" (tranlated)

NOTES: Catalogued by R. Sobieszek/PB, 4/85.//

SUBJECTS:
personage, literary / Lamartine, Alphonse de
personage, politician / Lamartine, Alphonse de

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