Portrait of La Fontaine

Nadar (Gaspard Félix Tournachon) (French, 1820–1910)

c. 1854–1860

Medium

Salted paper print

Classification

Photograph

Dimensions

Image/paper: 22.4 × 17.3 cm (8 7/8 × 6 13/16 in.)

Culture

France

Museum

Art Institute of Chicago, Photography and Media

Credit line

The Mary and Leigh Block Endowment Fund

Rights

Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.

Who can see it

Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed

View at the Art Institute of Chicago

• Early photography
• Photographs
• Portraits
• 1800s
• France
• Yellow