Étienne Carjat photographed Charles Baudelaire, one of the creative geniuses of the 19th century, twice in the 1860s. His early, widely distributed image of a fortysomething poet with an intense stare conveys a burning creative energy. The second, much rarer photograph is a sad, moving portrait made a few months before the poet died, when he was already under the care of a doctor, in the hospital, and no longer able to speak. Nadar visited Baudelaire each week for silent walks together, and it is likely that Nadar escorted him to Carjat’s home for one final portrait sitting.