[Comtesse Walewska and Princesse Jaochim Murat]
![[Comtesse Walewska and Princesse Jaochim Murat] by Countess Virginia Oldoini Verasis di Castiglione|Pierre-Louis Pierson|Marck](https://images.artheonmuseum.org/met/ph/thumb/comtesse-walewska-and-princesse-jaochim-murat-288163.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 (6e–h)
Tags
Art Historical Context
In the mid-19th century, photography emerged as a glamorous tool for Europe's elite, and this pair of intimate cartes de visite-sized albumen silver prints exemplifies that trend. Titled *Comtesse Walewska andcesse Joachim Murat*, these portraits before 1865 capture two noblewomen linked to Napoleon's inner circle: Marie Walewska, the Polish countess and one of the emperor's mistresses, Caroline Bonaparte, Napoleon's sister and wife of Marshal Joachim Murat. Created by a collaborative team including the notorious Countess Virginia Oldoini Verasis di Castiglione—a pioneering photographic subjec...
About the Artist
Countess Virginia Oldoini Verasis di Castiglione|Pierre-Louis Pierson|Marck (French| ) · 1822 |1835 –1913 |1899
French, 1822–1913|1835–1899