File talk:Fridtjof Nansen LOC 03377u-3.jpg

Date of portrait

This photo was obtained from The Library of Congress. The 1915 date given there is that when it was published by Bain. This is not to say the photo is not one of a young Nansen that just happened to be published in 1915. In short, there is room for better documentation for the actual date of Nansen in the photo.

The original photo is here, and the University of Oslo, it seems. Per google search nansen van der weyde it seems to be perhaps signed by Nansen in 1897. A better photo is: http://www.nansenamundsen.no/en/nansen/Nansen.html Feb. 11, 1897, as you see.

The portrait could be older, however. Here it is at the National Portrait Gallery, print dated to 1896. Perhaps the best we can say at the moment is the portrait is dated to the 1890s, Nansen about age 35. Bdushaw (talk) 06:22, 11 October 2017 (UTC)