Dulare
February 1865–75
Medium
Albumen silver print from glass negative
Dimensions
Image: 20.3 × 12.1 cm (8 × 4 3/4 in.)
Classification
Photographs
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gilman Collection, Gift of The Howard Gilman Foundation, 2005
Accession Number
2005.100.588.4
Tags
Art Historical Context
**Dulare** is a captivating carte de visite portrait by André-Adolphe-Eène Disdéri, a pioneering French photographer active in the mid-19th century. Created between February 1865 and1875, this albumen silver print from a negative measures a compact 20.3 × 12.1 cm, embodying the popular format Disdéri himself invented around 1854. These small, affordable photographs revolutionized portraiture, making professional imagery accessible to the masses and sparking a collecting craze across Europe and America. The image depicts a poised woman named Dulare, rendered with the sharp detail and warm tone...
About the Artist
André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri · 1819–1889
**André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri** (1819–1889) was a pioneering French photographer whose innovations transformed portraiture into a mass medium during the Second Empire. Born on March 28, 1819, in Paris, Disdéri pursued diverse careers in commerce, acting, and politics early on, while studying art amid personal hardships following his father's death, which compelled him to support his mother, sibli...