Artist/Photographer: Nadar (1820–1910).
Title: Portrait of Edmond de Goncourt, French author.
Dimensions: Image: 9 2/8" × 7 1/2". Sheet: 13 6/8" × 10 1/8".
Publisher: Galerie Contemporaine Littéraire et Artistique, 1876. Vol. 3. Phot. Goupil & Cie.
Date: 1855–59 (The Metropolitan Museum of Art).
Materials and Techniques: Woodburytype, mounted on typographic mat board.
Condition: Good. Light surface wear consistent with age; right margin slightly trimmed.
Museums: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, accession no. 1992.5148.20.
Art Movements, Periods and Schools: French School XIX C.
Note: From the series Galerie Contemporaine Littéraire et Artistique, a major late nineteenth-century French publication documenting leading cultural figures through photographic portraiture, often reproduced as woodburytypes by Goupil & Cie.


