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Napoléon Coste
André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri (French, 1819–1889)
1859
- Medium
- Albumen print
- Classification
- Photograph
- Dimensions
- Image/paper: 20 × 23.3 cm (7 7/8 × 9 3/16 in.)
- Culture
- France
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Photography and Media
- Credit line
- Purchased with funds provided by Helen Harvey Mills in honor of Katherine Bussard
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
In 1854 the Parisian photographer André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri introduced a method for producing multiple images on a single glass-plate negative. He also produced more portable studio portrait format: the carte-de-visite, which consists of a small portrait mounted on rigid paper stock about the size of a business card. The uncut contact sheet displayed here features eight different views of a single sitter. It comes from a reference album that Disdéri kept in his studio for reprint requests. The irreversible discolor-ation along the edges of the print was caused primarily by humidity, which penetrated the pages of the closed album over the years.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
