● On view now — 230 Photography
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland · verified August 2026
FROM THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART’S CATALOG
French poet and critic Charles Baudelaire, who wrote scathingly about photography, was nonetheless close friends with the famed photographer Nadar.
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Goupil et Cie|Etienne Carjat — Charles Baudelaire![[Thomas Webster]](https://images.metmuseum.org/CRDImages/ph/web-large/DP-386-351.jpg)
John and Charles Watkins — [Thomas Webster]![[William Edward Frost]](https://images.metmuseum.org/CRDImages/ph/web-large/DP-386-097.jpg)
John and Charles Watkins — [William Edward Frost]
Édouard Manet (French, 1832–1883) — Charles Baudelaire![[Richard Doyle]](https://images.metmuseum.org/CRDImages/ph/web-large/DP-386-059.jpg)
John and Charles Watkins — [Richard Doyle]
Pierre Petit (French, 1832–1909) — Gustave Doré![[Baron Carlo (Charles) Marochetti]](https://images.metmuseum.org/CRDImages/ph/web-large/DP-386-209.jpg)
John and Charles Watkins|Baron Charles Marochetti — [Baron C![[John Tenniel]](https://images.metmuseum.org/CRDImages/ph/web-large/DP-386-327.jpg)
John and Charles Watkins — [John Tenniel]
Oscar Gustav Rejlander — Study of a Head![[Eugene Benson]](https://images.metmuseum.org/CRDImages/ph/web-large/DP-386-019.jpg)
Maurice Stadtfeld — [Eugene Benson]
William Lake Price (British, 1810–1896) — Daniel Maclise (18
Charles Victor Hugo|Auguste Vacquerie — Victor Hugo![[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)