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Napoleon Sarony

1821

WA-00049611

Photography

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None documented

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80%

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Authority Records (1)

WikidataQ965637

Selected Institutional Exhibitions

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From the Gilman Collection: Photographs Preserved in Ink

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1984–1985

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70 Photographers Look at New York

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1957–1958

Field Verification (2 fields)

2 cross-verified · 0 single-source

Is PublishedManual· 100%✓
Birth yearArtsy· 85%✓

Source Registry (1)

Smithsonianhttps://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artist/?id=4257
Tier 1 · Institutional95%

About

Why this artist matters now

Napoléon Sarony was a Canadian-born American lithographer and photographer. He was a highly popular portrait photographer, best known for his portraits of the stars of late-19th-century American theater. His son, Otto Sarony, continued the family business as a theater and film star photographer.

Source: Smithsonian Institution · Trust score: 95% · Updated 18d ago

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Artworks (7)

George Henry Smillie (1840-1921)

1890 · photogravure

plate: 263 x 149 mm image: 215 x 124 mm sheet: 347 x 275 mm

National Gallery of Art

Oscar Wilde

1882 · Albumen silver print from glass negative

Image: 12 in. × 7 1/4 in. (30.5 × 18.4 cm) Mount: 12 15/16 × 7 3/8 in. (32.8 × 18.8 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Portret van Mark Twain

1881 · paper

height: 121 cm, width: 100 cm

Rijksmuseum

[Advertisement for Sarony's Photographic Studies]

1880 · Albumen silver print from glass negative; lithograph

7 3/4 x 9 5/16

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Reclame voor een jongenspak van Devlin & Company in New York

1871 · albumen print on photographic support, cardboard

height: 100 cm, width: 62 cm

Rijksmuseum

Portret van admiraal David Farragut

1864 · albumen print on photographic support

width: 97 cm, height: 140 cm

Rijksmuseum

Perry's Victory on Lake Erie

1821 · hand-colored lithograph

National Gallery of Art

Artwork sources (6)

7 published of 11 catalogued · 11 with image

Rijksmuseum
3 published3 img
The Met
2 published2 img
Nga
2 published2 img
+ 3 more sources · 4 catalogued, not yet published

Per-Artwork Provenance Chains (top 5)

11 entries · 2 sources

Oscar Wilde
1882 · Met · 4 prov
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George Henry Smillie (1840-1921)
1890 · Nga · 3 prov
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Perry's Victory on Lake Erie
1821 · Nga · 2 prov
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Portret van Mark Twain
1881 · Rijksmuseum · 1 prov
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Portret van admiraal David Farragut
1864 · Rijksmuseum · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number

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Images

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Reclame voor een jongenspak van Devlin & Company in New York (c. 1871)

Rijksmuseum

Portret van admiraal David Farragut (ca. 1864 - in of voor 1869)

Rijksmuseum

Portret van Mark Twain (c. 1881 - in or before 1891)

Rijksmuseum

Smithsonian Institution

Napoleon Sarony gallery reception area (c. 1880)

Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Institution

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Smithsonian American Art Museum Art Institute of Chicago National Gallery of Art

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Smithsonian American Art Museum

In collection

Art Institute of Chicago

In collection

National Gallery of Art

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Exhibitions and timeline

Group Exhibition From the Gilman Collection: Photographs Preserved in Ink

New York · 1984

Group Exhibition 70 Photographers Look at New York

New York · 1957