Catacombs, Paris

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Artist: Nadar (French, Paris 1820–1910 Paris)
Date: April 1862
Medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative
Dimensions: Image: 23.7 x 18.6 cm (9 5/16 x 7 5/16 in.) Mount: 46 x 33.6 cm (18 1/8 x 13 1/4 in.)
Type: Photograph
Classification: Photographs
Department: Photographs
Credit line: Gilman Collection, Purchase, Denise and Andrew Saul Gift, 2005
Accession no.: 2005.100.813

The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s open-access data does not include an ownership history for this work. See the museum’s page for this work.

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Nadar
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Museum collection · via the Cleveland Museum of ArtAT-00000340
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Nadar
c. 1860s · Photograph
Museum collection · via the Cleveland Museum of ArtAT-00000362
Gustave Doré
Nadar
1856-58 · Photograph
Museum collection · via the Art Institute of ChicagoAT-00006602
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Nadar
1863, printed later · Photograph
Museum collection · via the Art Institute of ChicagoAT-00006920

Data retrieved from the Metropolitan Museum of Art on October 9, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.