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Napoléon Coste

A work made of albumen print.
CC0 Public Domain Designation

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  • A work made of albumen print.

Date:

1859

Artist:

André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri
French, 1819–1889

About this artwork

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.

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Photography and Media

Artist

André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri

Title

Napoléon Coste

Place

France (Artist's nationality:)

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Made 1859

Medium

Albumen print

Dimensions

Image/paper: 20 × 23.3 cm (7 7/8 × 9 3/16 in.)

Credit Line

Purchased with funds provided by Helen Harvey Mills in honor of Katherine Bussard

Reference Number

2006.314

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