Etienne CARJAT - Portrait of Charles Baudelaire - Photography

Étienne Carjat (1828-1906).
Portrait of Charles Baudelaire

Wet collodion negative, print on photoglyptic paper (232 x 182 mm), mounted on the original cardboard (347 x 259 mm) with caption.

Etienne Carjat was one of the great Parisian portrait photographers of the mid-19th century. Along with Nadar, he was one of the first to use collodion, whose detail performance was extremely
precise.


Very close to Carjat, Baudelaire often went to his workshop.
This famous portrait was made around 1862 and Baudelaire noted in his notebooks:

"It [the portrait] is not perfect, because that perfection is impossible, but I have rarely seen anything so good."
(Étienne Carjat, p. 22).

Beautiful proof on its original cardboard captioned "Ch. Baudelaire, born in Paris in 1821, died in 1867" and with the indications "Contemporary gallery" at the top, and "Cliché Carjat et Cie" (on
the right under the image). "Phot. Goupil et Cie" (in the center under the image) and "126, Boul. Magenta. Paris" (on the left under the image)

Dimensions :
- Height : 34.7 cm
- Width : 25.9 cm