Surgeon Emile Nelaton Cdv By Pierre Carjat Circa 1865 Albumen Print Photograph

Portrait of the surgeon NELATON by Carjat. Carte de visite. Vintage albumen print. Auguste Jean-Baptiste Nélaton, born in Paris on June 17, 1807, and died on September 21, 1873, in the same city, was a French physician and surgeon. He was the father of the painter and ceramicist Camille Moreau-Nélaton (1840-1897). Having received his doctorate in 1836, he became the personal surgeon of Napoleon III and was elected a member of the Academy of Sciences in 1867 and appointed "Imperial Senator" in 1868. He treated Garibaldi and was a pioneer of plastic surgery. Étienne Carjat, born in Fareins (Ain) on March 28, 1828, and died in Paris (10th arrondissement) on March 8, 1906, was a French photographer, journalist, caricaturist, and poet. He learned the trade from Pierre Petit and set up his first studio at number 56 rue Laffitte in Paris. A friend of Baudelaire, with Nadar, he was the principal photographer of prominent figures in the arts, politics and entertainment between 1860 and 1890. One of his best-known photographs is a portrait of Arthur Rimbaud, taken in October 1871.