[Anna Murat and Unknown Sitters]
![[Anna Murat and Unknown Sitters] by Countess Virginia Oldoini Verasis di Castiglione|Pierre-Louis Pierson|Marck](https://images.artheonmuseum.org/met/ph/thumb/anna-murat-and-unknown-sitters-288162.webp)
Medium
Albumen silver prints from glass negatives with applied color
Dimensions
Image: 3 3/8 in. × 2 in. (8.6 × 5.1 cm) (each)
Classification
Photographs
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gilman Collection, Gift of The Howard Gilman Foundation, 2005
Accession Number
2005.100.410 (6a–d)
Tags
Art Historical Context
In the mid-19th century, photography blossomed as an accessible art form, and this intimate set of albumen silver prints—each a petite 3⅜ × 2 inches—exemplifies that era's innovation. Created before 1865 by a remarkable trio: the glamorous Countess Virginia Oldoiniasis di Castiglione ( known as La Castiglione photographer Pierre-Louis Pierson of the famed Mayer & Pierson studio and Marck. Titled *Anna Murat and Unknown Sitters*, these images capture elegant women in a cartes de visite format, the era's popular calling-card-sized portraits that democratized celebrity and aristocracy. The print...
About the Artist
Countess Virginia Oldoini Verasis di Castiglione|Pierre-Louis Pierson|Marck (French| ) · 1822 |1835 –1913 |1899
French, 1822–1913|1835–1899