GORDANA KRSTIĆ-FAYE
Independent researcher, Paris, France; Belgrade, Serbia
gordana70@yahoo.com
FOTOGRAFIJE I SLIKANI PORTRETI SRPSKOG KNEZA MILANA OBRENOVIĆA IZ PARISKOG ATELJEA FELIKSA NADARA
PHOTOGRAPHS AND PAINTED PORTRAITS OF SERBIAN PRINCE MILAN OBRENOVIĆ BY FELIX NADAR STUDIO IN PARIS
Journal 16/2020 (Museum of Applied Art), pages 57-65
Article category: scientific review
UDC:
75.041.5(44)˝1874˝
77.04(44)˝1873˝
321.61:929 ОбреновићА.(093.2)
Abstract (original language):
U radu se analiziraju dve serije fotografija (1873) i slikani portreti Milana Obrenovića (1874) iz pariskog ateljea Feliksa Nadara (Gaspard-Félix Tournachon Nadar), kao i pismo koje mu je knez napisao 8. marta 1874. godine, povodom završetka i preuzimanja slikanih portreta. Fotografije devetnaestogodišnjeg srpskog kneza prikazuju u uniformi i građanskom odelu, u poluprofilu ili anfas. Dve serije fotografija i pismo čuvaju se u zaostavštini ateljea Nadar (Atelier Nadar) u Parizu (BnF, MAP), a nekoliko fotografija u medaljonima i u pojedinim muzejima u Srbiji. Reprezentativni portreti slikani uljem na platnu su među najranijim slikanim predstavama Milana Obrenovića iz vremena njegove samostalne vladavine i vlasništvo su muzejâ u Srbiji i Crnoj Gori. Zaključuje se da su fotografije snimljene tokom prve kneževe zvanične posete Parizu, ubrzo po otpočinjanju samostalne vladavine, i da su portreti slikani po uzoru na jednu od njih, do marta 1874. godine. Može se pretpostaviti da su delo Adrijena Turnašona (Adrien Alban Tournachon), mlađeg brata Feliksa Nadara.
Key words: (original language)
Milan Obrenović, Feliks Nadar, Adrijen Turnašon, portret, fotografija
Summary:
Serbian prince and future king Milan Obrenović (1854-1901) took over the throne in 1872. The following year, he officially visited Paris (8th September – 22nd October, 1873) and, during this stay, he was photographed in famous Nadar Studio. These photographs were later produced for the Nadar Studio albums, and are currently preserved in Paris (National Library of France (BnF); MAP). Milan Obrenović is presented in half profile or frontally, in his military general's uniform, or in elegant clothes. Photographs are rectangular or medallionshaped. Their formats are of card of visite or carte for album. Four of these photographs are also kept in four museums in Serbia. Two of them are dated: Paris 1873. Nadar Studio also produced representative portraits of prince Milan, painted in oil on canvas and modelled on one of the above-mentioned photographs from 1873. The portraits were completed by the 8th of March 1874, when prince Milan wrote a letter to Felix Nadar regarding their handover. He asked Nadar to offer two of these portraits: one to the prince's mother, and the other one to Marquis du Lau d'Allemans. The letter is kept at the Manuscript Collection of the National Library of France (BnF), in Paris. Today, two of these portraits are owned by two museums in Serbia: the National Museum in Belgrade and the Military Museum in Belgrade, while the third one is owned by the National Museum of Montenegro, in Cetinje. The painted portraits present a three-quarter figure of the standing prince, wearing his military general's uniform, with his face in half profile. The inscription: Ateliers Nadar Paris 1874 is written at the bottom right corner. It can be assumed that the author of the painted portraits is Adrien Alban Tournachon, Felix Nadar's younger brother. In that case, these portraits represent rarely preserved artworks of the artist, whose oeuvre is yet to be discovered and valorised.
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