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Portrait of Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791–1864)
About the Artwork
Meyerbeer's operas were the most frequently performed works in Paris and throughout Europe. This portrait of the composer is signed “Nadar jeune” or “Nadar the younger.” Adrien Tournachon was the younger, less successful brother of the famed photographer Gaspard-Félix Tournachon, known as Nadar.
Inscriptions
written on label adhered to mount: "Meyerbeer [signed]"; written on mount: "Portrait fait fe 20 Septembre 1957"
Exhibition history
France at the Dawn of Photography. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 4, 2009-January 24, 2010). France in the Time of Manet and Morisot. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 10-August 23, 2026).
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Adrien Tournachon (French, 1825–1903)
- Date
- 1857
- Medium
- salt print from wet collodion negative
- Dimensions
- Image: 27.6 x 19.9 cm (10 7/8 x 7 13/16 in.); Mounted: 48.4 x 36.1 cm (19 1/16 x 14 3/16 in.); Matted: 61 x 50.8 cm (24 x 20 in.)
- Type
- Photograph
- Classification
- Photograph
- Department
- Photography
- Credit line
- John L. Severance Fund
- Accession no.
- 2001.151
More by Adrien Tournachon in museum collections
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 7, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Open-access museum record · AT-00000366
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