Caricature

Caricature is an original etching on paper realized in the first half of the  XX century by the French    important photographer and caricaturist artist, Gaspard-Félix Tournachon (6 April 1820 – 20 March 1910), known by the pseudonym   Nadar.

The state of preservation is very good except for some foxing.

Signed on the plate, lower left.

The artwork represents a caricature by a well-known French Photographer through precise and short strokes. The artwork shows the skillful mastery of the artist to demonstrate the details, Nadar is a photographer,  caricaturist, journalist, novelist, balloonist, and proponent of heavier-than-air flight. In 1858 he became the first person to take aerial  photographs .