● On view now — 230 Photography
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland · verified August 2026
FROM THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART’S CATALOG
Nadar was an alias for Gaspard-Félix Tournachon, a prominent and well-connected photographer, caricaturist, and writer who photographed many of the cultural and political celebrities of the age.
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Nadar — Jules Janin
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (French, 1780–1867) — Charles ![[William Harvey]](https://images.metmuseum.org/CRDImages/ph/web-large/DP-386-123.jpg)
John and Charles Watkins — [William Harvey]
Nadar — Gioacchino Rossini
Carl Adolph Rimanoczy (British, 1834–1910) — Portrait
Etienne Carjat — Jean Baptiste Camille Corot
David Octavius Hill|Robert Adamson|Hill and Adamson — Sir W
Jean-Baptiste Isabey (French, 1767–1855) — Eugène Isabey
Honoré Daumier (French, 1808–1879) — Jean Jacques Fayet, Bis
William Page — Portrait of Senator Charles Sumner
Gustave Courbet|Marcellin Desboutin — Portrait of Gustave Co
Adrien Tournachon (French, 1825–1903) — Portrait of Giacomo ![[Nadar with His Wife, Ernestine, in a Balloon]](https://images.metmuseum.org/CRDImages/ph/web-large/DP158031.jpg)
![[Standing Female Nude]](https://images.metmuseum.org/CRDImages/ph/web-large/DP263575.jpg)
![[Seated Model, Partially Draped]](https://images.metmuseum.org/CRDImages/ph/web-large/DP206681.jpg)
![[Paul Nadar at the Breast of His Wet Nurse]](https://images.metmuseum.org/CRDImages/ph/web-large/DT285024.jpg)