Le Mime Deburau (Photographes de Nadar) Collection du Musée d'Orsay et autres. (1845-1854)
Nadar (Gaspard-Félix Tournachon). (French, 1820-1910). Mime Deburau 1845-1854. Collection du Musée d'Orsay et autres.
"The great mime Baptiste Deburau acted at the Théâtre des Funambules in Paris and, after his death in 1846, his son Charles, who looked just like him, continued the tradition. The Deburaus transformed the commedia dell'arte character Pierrot, a base and thieving knave, into a modern free agent whose clever, quicksilver maneuvering appealed not only to the lower classes but also to the literati. Gautier, Champfleury, Baudelaire, and George Sand saw Pierrot as a metaphor for the creative artist—autonomous, ironic, and endlessly imaginative.""Nadar (Gaspard-Félix Tournachon) and Adrien Tournachon: Pierrot Laughing (1998.57)". In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/nadr/ho_1998.57.htm (October 2006)
Jan 1, 1970
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