NADAR [GASPARD-FÉLIX TOURNACHON] (1820-1910) Portrait of the photographer's mother, Madame Tournachan (Therese Maillet). Oval salted paper print, the image measuring 9 1/2x7 1/2 inches (24.1x19.1 cm.), the oval mount slightly larger, with Nadar's signature in ink on print recto, and the subject's name in pencil in an unknown hand on mount verso. Before 1854
Nadar was considered one of the greatest portrait photographers of the 19th century. Another print of this image can be found at the J. Paul Getty Museum.
![NADAR [GASPARD-FÉLIX TOURNACHON] (1820-1910) Portrait of the photographers mother, Madame Tournachan (Therese Maillet).](https://catalogue.swanngalleries.com/full//983\805983.jpg)
