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Ambassade de Siam
Creator
Nadar [Gaspard Félix Tournachon]French Photographer · 1820–1910
All works by this person →> The sun is only the practitioner, M[r]. Nadar is the artist who wants to give him some work. So wrote a critic of Gaspard Félix Tournachon in 1859. Tournachon's nickname, Nadar, derived from youthful slang, but became his professional signature and the name by which he is best known today. Poor but talented, Nadar began by scratching out a living as a freelance writer and caricaturist. His writi
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- 1860–1861
- Medium
- Coating present, most likely albumen.
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- French
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- Photographs
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- Getty Museum
Portrait of three delegates and a young boy from Siam (modern day Thailand) wearing traditional military dress clothes and standing in a row in front of a brick wall. A man wearing clerical clothing stands with them with his hat in his hand.
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