The sculptor Emmanuel Frémiet's (1824-1910) acute observation of anatomical structure-sometimes carried out at the morgue-and his dexterous modeling of minute physiological details brought him fame at a time when naturalism was ascendant. The original negative (now lost), may have been the product of collaboration between Tournachon and his brother, Nadar.
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Title:Emmanuel Frémiet
Artist:Adrien Tournachon (French, 1825–1903)
Date:1854–55
Medium:Salted paper print from glass negative
Dimensions:24.6 x 17.3cm (9 11/16 x 6 13/16in.)
Classification:Photographs
Credit Line:Gilman Collection, Purchase, Alfred Stieglitz Society Gifts, 2005
Accession Number:2005.100.45
Inscription: Inscribed in ink, recto RC, in Nadar's hand: "Frémiet"; stamped on recto BL: "Nadar jne" [cropped]; inscribed in pencil, verso C, in Nadar's hand: "Frémiet"; inscribed in pencil, verso TC: "fremiet //14 sous-verre // fremiet"; stamped in purple ink on print, verso CR: "[Illegible]"
[...]; [Gérard Lévy, Paris]; [Graphics International]; Gilman Paper Company Collection, New York, purchased July 30, 1980
Philadelphia Museum of Art. "The Second Empire, 1852-1870: Art in France under Napolean III," October 1, 1978–November 26, 1978.
Musée d'Orsay. "L'invention d'un regard," October 2, 1989–December 31, 1989.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "The Waking Dream: Photography's First Century, Selections from the Gilman Paper Company Collection," May 25–July 4, 1993.
Edinburgh International Festival, Edinburgh, Scotland. "The Waking Dream: Photography's First Century, Selections from the Gilman Paper Company Collection," August 7–October 2, 1993.
Musée d'Orsay. "Nadar," June 7–September 11, 1994.
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. "The Waking Dream: Photography's First Century, Selections from the Gilman Paper Company Collection," June 19–September 11, 1994.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Portraits: A Century of Photographs," September 10, 2002–January 13, 2003.
Bibliothèque nationale de France. "Les Nadar," October 16, 2018–February 3, 2019.
Moulin, Jean-Marie. The Second Empire, 1852–1870: Art in France Under Napolean III. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1978. no. VIII-27.
Hambourg, Maria Morris, Pierre Apraxine, Malcolm Daniel, Virginia Heckert, and Jeff L. Rosenheim. The Waking Dream: Photography's First Century, Selections from the Gilman Paper Company Collection. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1993. no. 60.
Hambourg, Maria Morris, Françoise Heilbrun, and Paul Néagu. Nadar. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1995. no. 30.
DesChamps, Julie Lattin. "Vernis Cuir and the Photographs of Adrien Tournachon." In Coatings on Photographs: Materials, Techniques, and Conservation. Washington, D. C.: American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works, 2005. pp. 276–287.
Aubenas, Sylvie, and Anne Lacoste. Les Nadar: Une légende photographique. Paris: Bibliothèque nationale de France, 2018. no. 92, p. 157.
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