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Mme Crémieux
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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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- 1856–1857
- Medium
- Salted paper print
- Culture
- French
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- Photographs
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- Getty Museum
Scholars know little of Madame Crémieux, not even her first name, though her maiden name was Silny. A native of Metz in northeast France, she married the lawyer and politician Adolphe (Isaac-Moïse) Crémieux in 1824. Her personal qualities were such that in 1869 she was described as being "of the greatest distinction." She seems demure if not slightly sad, with a faint smile playing about her lips and her eyes lovingly directed toward her husband, who likely stood nearby as she posed. Nadar very much admired Crémieux, whose political views often coincided with his own. He also admired Madame Crémieux and the harmonious marriage she and her husband shared, which lasted for more than fifty years and ended with their deaths one month apart in 1880.
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