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Nadar (Gaspard-Félix Tournachon)
Self-Portrait in Indian Costumecirca 1863

Not on view
Sepia-toned full-length studio portrait photograph of a white man with long wavy hair and a mustache, wearing a fringed and beaded frontier-style costume

Nadar (Gaspard-Félix Tournachon), Self-Portrait in Indian Costume, circa 1863, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Audrey and Sydney Irmas Collection, digital image © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Nadar (Gaspard-Félix Tournachon)
France, 1820-1910
Title
Self-Portrait in Indian Costume
Place Made
France
Date Made
circa 1863
Medium
Albumen silver print
Dimensions
Image: 6 1/8 × 4 1/16 in. (15.6 × 10.3 cm) Primary support: 6 1/8 × 4 1/16 in. (15.6 × 10.3 cm) Secondary support: 6 7/16 × 4 5/8 in. (16.4 × 11.7 cm) Mat: 15 × 12 1/2 in. (38.1 × 31.75 cm)
Credit Line
The Audrey and Sydney Irmas Collection
Accession Number
AC1992.197.97
Classification
Photographs
Collecting Area
Photography
Selected Bibliography
  • Sobieszek, Robert and Deborah Irmas. the camera i: Photographic Self-Portraits from the Audrey and Sydney Irmas Collection. Los Angeles: The Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1994.
  • Irmas, Deborah. This Is Not a Selfie: Photographic Self-Portraits from the Audrey and Sydney Irmas Collection. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2016.