[Carte-de-Visite Album of Prominent Personages]
![[Carte-de-Visite Album of Prominent Personages] by Mayer & Pierson|Neurdein Frères|Leon and Lévy|Boulton|Franck|Pierre-Louis Pierson|H. B. Randall|Sergei Luvovich Levitsky|William Downey|Horatio Nelson King|André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri|George Washington Wilson|Vernon Heath|Daniel Downey|Sergei Luvovich Levitsky|Robert Jefferson Bingham](https://images.artheonmuseum.org/met/ph/thumb/carte-de-visite-album-of-prominent-personages-269659.webp)
Medium
Albumen silver prints
Classification
Albums
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Susanna Myers, 1953
Accession Number
53.627.1
Tags
Art Historical Context
Step into the Victorian era with the *Carte-de-Visite Album Prominent Personages*, captivating collection from the 1860s–70s at the Metropolitan Museum of Art This album gathers small, intimate albumen silver prints—photographs mounted on cardstock—produced by renowned studios like Mayer & Pierson Neurdein Frères, André-Adolphe-Eène Disdéri, inventor of the carte-deite format itself. Gifted by Susanna Myers in 1953, it portraits of distinguished men and women, from royalty to cultural icons, evoking the era's fascination with celebrity. Carte-de-visite, meaning "visiting card" in French, revo...