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Adrien Tournachon 
Taureau Gascon 
1856 
  
Salt print, varnished with gelatin and tannin from wet collodion negative 
8 1/8 x 11 1/8 ins 
  
Archive Farms 
Object No. 2017.873 
  
 
LL/90780 
  
Probably made at the Exposition Agricole of 1856. The photograph is printed in the technique known as vernis-cuit , in which the paper was coated with layers of gelatin and tannin to give the surface the appearance of varnished leather. Notes: Adrien was the younger brother of Félix Tournachon, the well-known artist and caricaturist whose work appeared in numerous satirical newspapers under the pseudonym, Nadar. The two became embroiled in a legal battle over the exclusive right to the name "Nadar." Félix had arranged for Adrien, a painter, to learn the photographic process and then to open his own photographic studio. When the business began to fail the two collaborated, and Félix supplied financial backing, contacts, and his pseudonym. Adrien asked Félix to relinquish his share in the studio and continued the practice alone using the name "Nadar jeune," which prompted Félix to take legal action. After the court ruled that Félix was "the only, the true Nadar," Adrien turned his attention to photographing animals.
 
(source: NGA) 
 

 
  
 
  
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