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Unknown Artist — Gérard de Nerval

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Gérard de Nerval

1850

Literary portraiture captures the enigmatic French Romantic writer whose tragic life and innovative prose influenced symbolist poetry and surrealist literature.

Medium
albumen print

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Unknown Artist, Gérard de Nerval, 1850

Literary portraiture captures the enigmatic French Romantic writer whose tragic life and innovative prose influenced symbolist poetry and surrealist literature.

Medium
albumen print
Year
1850
Seen at
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Related themes

Vintage, Monochrome, French, Albumen Print, Figure Study, 1850s, Documentary, Photograph, Historical, Portrait

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Cleveland Museum of Art, Art Institute of Chicago