Artworks · Nadar (Gaspard Félix Tournachon)

Eugène Viollet-Le-Duc (French architect, 1814-1879)

1878 · Woodburytype, from the periodical “Galerie Contemporaine Littéraire, Artistique” (1878), volume 5

Image/paper: 23.1 × 18 cm (9 1/8 × 7 1/8 in.); Mount: 34.3 × 36 cm (13 9/16 × 14 3/16 in.)

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Baron Isidore Justin Séverin Taylor (Belgian playwright and travel writer, 1789-1878)

1872 · Woodburytype, from the periodical “Galerie Contemporaine Littéraire, Artistique” (1877), volume 4

Image/paper: 24 × 19.2 cm (9 1/2 × 7 9/16 in.); Mount: 34.2 × 36 cm (13 1/2 × 14 3/16 in.)

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F. de Lesseps

1871 · Woodburytype, from the periodical “Galerie Contemporaine Littéraire, Artistique” (1876), volume 1

Image/paper: 23.8 × 19.3 cm (9 3/8 × 7 5/8 in.); Mount: 34.2 × 26 cm (13 1/2 × 10 1/4 in.)

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François Coppée (French poet and novelist, 1842-1908)

1871 · Woodburytype, from the periodical “Galerie Contemporaine Littéraire, Artistique” (1877), volume 2

Image/paper: 23.8 × 19.1 cm (9 3/8 × 7 9/16 in.); Mount: 34.1 × 26 cm (13 7/16 × 10 1/4 in.)

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Le Neptune, Place Saint-Pierre à Montmartre

1870 · Gelatin silver printing out print

Image/paper: 10.1 × 7.4 cm (4 × 2 15/16 in.); Mount: 11.6 × 8.8 cm (4 5/8 × 3 1/2 in.)

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Édouard Manet (French painter, 1832-1883)

1865 · Woodburytype, from the periodical “Galerie Contemporaine Littéraire, Artistique” (1876), volume 1

Image/paper: 11.9 × 8.2 cm (4 11/16 × 3 1/4 in.); Mount: 36.3 × 27.8 cm (14 5/16 × 11 in.)

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Thiers

1865 · Woodburytype, from the periodical “Galerie Contemporaine Littéraire, Artistique” (1876), volume 1

Image/paper: 19.4 × 15.8 cm (7 11/16 × 6 1/4 in.); Mount: 34 × 26 cm (13 7/16 × 10 1/4 in.)

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Francis Planté (French pianist, 1839-1934)

1865 · Woodburytype, from the periodical “Galerie Contemporaine Littéraire, Artistique” (1878), volume 5

Image/paper: 23.9 × 19 cm (9 7/16 × 7 1/2 in.); Mount: 34 × 26 cm (13 7/16 × 10 1/4 in.)

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George Sand (born Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin, French novelist, 1804-1876)

1864 · Woodburytype, from the periodical “Galerie Contemporaine Littéraire, Artistique” (1877), volume 2

Image/paper: 23.5 × 19.1 cm (9 5/16 × 7 9/16 in.); Mount: 34 × 26.2 cm (13 7/16 × 10 3/8 in.)

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Le Geant, Champ de Mars

1863 · Gelatin silver printing out paper print

Image/paper: 17.1 × 16.5 cm (6 3/4 × 6 1/2 in.); First mount: 18.8 × 18.4 cm (7 7/16 × 7 1/4 in.); Second mount: 33 × 24.2 cm (13 × 9 9/16 in.)

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Interior of Le Géant Inflating

1863 · Gelatin silver print

Image: 11 × 8.3 cm (4 3/8 × 3 5/16 in.); Mount: 14.7 × 10.6 cm (5 13/16 × 4 3/16 in.)

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Gustave Doré

1856 · Albumen print

Image/paper: 23.6 × 18.7 cm (9 5/16 × 7 3/8 in.)

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Champfleury (born Jules François Felix Fleury-Husson, French critic and novelist, 1821-1889)

1855 · Woodburytype, from the periodical “Galerie Contemporaine Littéraire, Artistique” (1878), volume 6

Image/paper: 22.4 × 18.6 cm (8 7/8 × 7 3/8 in.); Mount: 34 × 26 cm (13 7/16 × 10 1/4 in.)

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Mme. Pape-Carpantier

1853 · Woodburytype, from the periodical “Galerie Contemporaine Littéraire, Artistique” (1878), volume 5

Image/paper: 23.5 × 18.2 cm (9 5/16 × 7 3/16 in.); Mount: 34.3 × 26.2 cm (13 9/16 × 10 3/8 in.)

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Ernest Legouvé

1853 · Woodburytype, from the periodical “Galerie Contemporaine Littéraire, Artistique” (1876), volume 3

Image/paper: 23.5 × 19.2 cm (9 5/16 × 7 9/16 in.); Mount: 34 × 26 cm (13 7/16 × 10 1/4 in.)

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Ferdinand Fabre

1853 · Woodburytype, from the periodical “Galerie Contemporaine Littéraire, Artistique” (1876), volume 3

Image/paper: 22.7 × 18.2 cm (8 15/16 × 7 3/16 in.); Mount: 34.2 × 26.1 cm (13 1/2 × 10 5/16 in.)

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Louis Figuier

1853 · Woodburytype, from the periodical “Galerie Contemporaine Littéraire, Artistique” (1877), volume 4

Image/paper: 23.8 × 19.2 cm (9 3/8 × 7 9/16 in.); Mount: 34.2 × 26.1 cm (13 1/2 × 10 5/16 in.)

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Gondinet

1853 · Woodburytype, from the periodical “Galerie Contemporaine Littéraire, Artistique” (1876), volume 3

Image/paper: 23.9 × 19 cm (9 7/16 × 7 1/2 in.); Mount: 34.2 × 26.2 cm (13 1/2 × 10 3/8 in.)

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Isaac Péreire

1853 · Woodburytype, from the periodical “Galerie Contemporaine Littéraire, Artistique” (1876), volume 3

Image, oval: 15.7 × 10.8 cm (6 3/16 × 4 5/16 in.); Paper: 19.8 × 15.7 cm (7 13/16 × 6 3/16 in.); Mount: 34.2 × 26.3 cm (13 1/2 × 10 3/8 in.)

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Edmond de Goncourt (French writer and critic, 1822-1896)

1853 · Woodburytype, from the periodical “Galerie Contemporaine Littéraire, Artistique” (1876), volume 3

Image/paper: 23.8 × 19.2 cm (9 3/8 × 7 9/16 in.); Mount: 34.2 × 26 cm (13 1/2 × 10 1/4 in.)

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Theodore Barrière

1853 · Woodburytype, from the periodical “Galerie Contemporaine Littéraire, Artistique” (1878), volume 5

Image, oval: 14.1 × 10.1 cm (5 9/16 × 4 in.); Paper: 19.5 × 14.8 cm (7 11/16 × 5 7/8 in.); Mount: 34.1 × 25.8 cm (13 7/16 × 10 3/16 in.)

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Eugéne Scribe

1853 · Woodburytype, from the periodical “Galerie Contemporaine Littéraire, Artistique” (1879), volume 8

Image, oval: 19.8 × 15 cm (7 13/16 × 5 15/16 in.); Mount: 34 × 26 cm (13 7/16 × 10 1/4 in.)

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Edmond-René Laboulaye

1853 · Woodburytype, from the periodical “Galerie Contemporaine Littéraire, Artistique” (1879), volume 7

Image/paper: 22.5 × 18.5 cm (8 7/8 × 7 5/16 in.); Mount: 34 × 26 cm (13 7/16 × 10 1/4 in.)

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Edmond About

1853 · Woodburytype, from the periodical “Galerie Contemporaine Littéraire, Artistique” (1879), volume 8

Image, oval: 14 × 10 cm (5 9/16 × 3 15/16 in.); Mount: 34 × 26 cm (13 7/16 × 10 1/4 in.)

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Antoine Gustave Droz (French writer, 1832-1895)

1853 · Woodburytype, from the periodical “Galerie Contemporaine Littéraire, Artistique” (1877), volume 4

Image/paper: 23.7 × 19 cm (9 3/8 × 7 1/2 in.); Mount: 34.1 × 26 cm (13 7/16 × 10 1/4 in.)

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Élie-Louis, duc Decazes (French statesman and diplomat, 1819-1886)

1853 · Woodburytype, from the periodical “Galerie Contemporaine Littéraire, Artistique” (1877), volume 2

Image/paper: 24 × 19.4 cm (9 1/2 × 7 11/16 in.); Mount: 34.2 × 26 cm (13 1/2 × 10 1/4 in.)

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Portrait of La Fontaine

1849 · Salted paper print

Image/paper: 22.4 × 17.3 cm (8 7/8 × 6 13/16 in.)

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