Honoré Daumier
1856/1858
Medium
salted paper print
Dimensions
overall: 24.4 x 17.9 cm (9 5/8 x 7 1/16 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Patrons' Permanent Fund
Accession Number
1995.36.106
Art Historical Context
Step into the world of 19th-century Paris with Nadar's captivating portrait of *Honoré Daumier* (1856/1858), a salted paper print that masterfully captures the intensity of one of France's greatest satirical artists. Nadar, the pseudonym of Gaspard-Félix Tournachon, was a pioneering photographer renowned for his intimate celebrity portraits, often taken in his studio or with dramatic lighting to reveal his subjects' inner lives. Here, Daumier—the bold caricaturist and painter who skewered social injustices through thousands of lithographs—gazes directly at the viewer, his furrowed brow and exp...