Self-Portrait with Wife Ernestine in a Balloon Gondola
c. 1865, printed c. 1890
Artist, French, 1820 - 1910
Printer, French, 1856 - 1939

Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 8.6 × 7.7 cm (3 3/8 × 3 1/16 in.)
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Accession
2000.21.1
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
The estate of Nadar (Félix Tournachon); by inheritance to Paul, then Anne Nadar; (Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA, by 1999); NGA purchase, 2000.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2016
Intersections: Photographs and Videos from the National Gallery of Art and the Corcoran Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2016 - 2017, unnumbered catalogue.
Bibliography
1994
Hambourg, Maria Morris, et al. Nadar (exh. cat. The Metropolitan Museum of Art), New York, 1994: 29-30, 109-111.
Wikidata ID
Q64158358