Charles BAUDELAIRE by Etienne CARJAT

The poet's most famous photograph, taken in 1862. Photoglypty from a wet collodion negative.

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Charles BAUDELAIRE by Etienne CARJAT

Original photoglypty – Portrait of Charles Baudelaire.

Photoglypty from a wet collodion negative (230 x 183 mm).

Mounted on the original cardboard captioned “Ch. Baudelaire, Born in Paris, in 1821, died in 1867” and with the indications “Contemporary Gallery – 126, boul. Magenta. Paris. Cliché Carjat et Cie »

This portrait – the poet's most famous – was produced in 1862 in the workshops of Etienne Carjat (1828-1906). The latter was – with Nadar – one of the great Parisian portrait photographers of the mid-19th ^century .

“It is a great ordeal which has nothing to envy of Nadar's portraits, neither the extraordinary posture of the figure, nor the dramatic chiaroscuro which deepens the features, giving the look an almost unbearable intensity as it is so painful . » Nadar exhibition , Musée d'Orsay, 1994, p. 84.)

Baudelaire, however, often went to Carjat, author of his most famous portraits. He wrote about it: “It [the portrait] is not perfect, because this perfection is impossible, but I have rarely seen anything so good. » Carjat exhibition , Musée Carnavalet, 1983, p. 22.)