Nadar (Gaspard Félix Tournachon)
[The Mime Jean-Charles Deburau Interprets Pierrot]

CultureFrench
Titles
  • [The Mime Jean-Charles Deburau Interprets Pierrot]
Date1854–1855
MediumSalted paper prints from glass negatives
DimensionsImage (Each): 6 11/16 × 4 3/4 in. (17 × 12 cm)
Sheet (Each): 7 11/16 × 5 5/16 in. (19.5 × 13.5 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Buddy Taub Foundation, Dennis A. Roach and Jill Roach, Directors
Object number2023.299.1-.11
Not on view

Explore Further

Department
Photography
Object Type
ProvenanceGiven by Nadar to Marie Pellechet (1840-1900); by descent to a private collector, Orléans, France; [Rouillac Auction, France, June 4, 2023, Lot 123]; [purchased by Hans P. Kraus, Jr., Inc., New York]; purchased by MFAH, 2023.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
In negative, lower center or lower left: Nadar jne.
In negative, lower center or lower left: Nadar

Cataloguing data may change with further research.

If you have questions about this work of art or the MFAH Online Collection please contact us.

Paris (Aux Pierrots)
René Jacques
c. 1950
Gelatin silver print
2000.622
Easter Egg Hunt
Vernon Fisher
1981
Found objects, acrylic paint, and text panel
92.283.A-.S
Plate
Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory
1784
Soft-paste porcelain
2008.349
Portrait by Nadar (MFAH ACC 2002.1705), cropped recto of sheet
Paul Nadar
1936
Gelatin silver print
2002.1705
Historia Naturale di Ferrante Imperato Napolitano
Ferrante Imperato
1672, second edition
Book
BF.2016.1
Can you walk from the garden, does your heart understand
Robert Dawson
1996
Bone china
2011.651.A-.H
captured image from Station Museum website
Carlos Runcie-Tanaka
1997–2006
Ceramic figures, one glass/metal urn, and aluminum lamps within a glass paneled room
2011.478
Lo feo de este mundo II (The Dispossessed Ones of this World II), Plate 6
José Luis Cuevas
1969
Lithograph in blue and black, edition 75/100
93.427.11
Lo feo de este mundo III (The Dispossessed Ones of this World III), Plate 7
José Luis Cuevas
1969
Lithograph in black and yellow, edition 48/100
93.427.9
El viaje (The Journey), Plate 14
José Luis Cuevas
1969
Lithograph in colors, edition 97/100
93.427.10
Lo feo de este mundo I (The Dispossessed Ones of This World I), Plate 5
José Luis Cuevas
1969
Lithograph in green, black, and red, edition 50/100
93.427.7
Mirate en este espejo (Look in this Mirror), Plate 12
José Luis Cuevas
1969
Lithograph in green, black, and red on silvered acetate adhered to paper, edition 40/95
93.427.8