Portrait of Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791–1864) (1857): Art, History and Details

Portrait of Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791–1864) (1857) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Adrien Tournachon (French, 1825–1903).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

Meyerbeer's operas were the most frequently performed works in Paris and throughout Europe. This portrait of the composer is signed “Nadar jeune” or “Nadar the younger.” Adrien Tournachon was the younger, less successful brother of the famed photographer Gaspard-Félix Tournachon, known as Nadar.

Object facts

• Title: Portrait of Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791–1864)
• Date: 1857
• Creator attribution: Adrien Tournachon (French, 1825–1903)
• Culture: France, 19th century
• Type: Photograph
• Technique: salt print from wet collodion negative
• Dimensions: Image: 27.6 x 19.9 cm (10 7/8 x 7 13/16 in.); Mounted: 48.4 x 36.1 cm (19 1/16 x 14 3/16 in.); Matted: 61 x 50.8 cm (24 x 20 in.)
• Collection: PH - French 19th Century
• Department: Photography
• Accession number: 2001.151

A detail from the museum

German composer Giacomo Meyerbeer was one of the most popular composers of the mid- and late 1800s.

Collection credit

John L. Severance Fund

View the collection record

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