Name: HONORÉ-VICTORIN DAUMIER (1808-1879)
Brand: Nadar élevant la photographie à l'hauteur de l'art ('Nadar elevating Photography to the Height of Art')
Price: 2400.00 GBP
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HONORÉ-VICTORIN DAUMIER (1808-1879)
Nadar élevant la photographie à l'hauteur de l'art ('Nadar elevating Photography to the Height of Art')
lithograph
1862
on thin wove paper
a fine impression of the rare first state (of two), from the edition of unknown size
printed by Bertauts, published in the periodical Boulevard (no. 24) on 25 May 1862, Paris
with letterpress text on the reverse
with margins, probably the full sheet
generally in good condition
Image 27 x 22 cm. (10⁵⁄₈ x 8³⁄₄ in.)
Sheet 44 x 30,4 cm. (17¹⁄₄ x 11³⁄₄ in.)

Hauswedell & Nolte, Hamburg, 13 June 2008, lot 1.
Acquired at the above sale; then by descent to present owners.

L. Delteil, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre lithographique de Honoré Daumier, Orrouy, 1904 [reprint, New York, 1969], no. 3248 I.

Hamburg, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Auf Stein gezeichnet – Lithographien von Bresdin bis Vuillard, November 2013 – March 2014, no. 22 (ill.), pp. 26-27, 82.

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This famous print by the Daumier, the greatest French caricaturist of the 19th century, is at once an homage to the celebrated photographer Nadar and a satire on the obsession with photography which gripped Paris at the time. Nadar, who's real name was Gaspar-Félix Tournachon (1820-1910), was a mainly a studio photographer, who made his name as a portraitist but was also fascinated by the development of hot air-balloons and eventually, in 1858, flew over Paris to take the first arial images in the history of photography.