Portraits of Crown Prince William of Orange, by André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri, 1859 - 1860
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Portraits of Crown Prince William of Orange

Also titled Portretten van kroonprins Willem van Oranje

André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri (Paris, 1819–1889)

1859 - 1860

Medium
paper
Classification
carte-de-visite
Dimensions
height 199 mm x width 234 mm
Museum
Rijksmuseum
Rights
Public Domain Mark, 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 Rijksmuseum

About this work

In 1859 the Dutch crown prince William of Orange visited Disdéri’s famous photography studio in Paris. The latter had devised the idea of selling small visitingcard format pictures of famous people. He had a camera specially built with which he could capture eight poses on a single negative, in William’s case he took two shots. Dealers and private individuals could order photographs from the contact sheets.