L'École d'Anvers. Portraits biographies cartes de visite. Collection Dupont
1861
Medium
albumen print
Dimensions
62; 101
About this artwork
opschrift, verso, gedrukt: ‘ETABLISSEMENT PHOTOGRAPHIQUE/ de/ J. DUPONT/ Place de Meir 32/ ANVERS/ Maison fondée en 1853’
Art Historical Context
This carte de visite, an albumen print created by Joseph Dupont in 1861, exemplifies the revolutionary photographic format that swept through Europe in the mid-nineteenth century. Measuring just 101 by 62 millimetres, the small card bears the stamp of Dupont’s Antwerp studio at Place de Meir 32, an establishment he founded in 1853. Such portraits were designed to be exchanged and collected like calling cards, allowing people to assemble personal galleries of notable contemporaries. Dupont’s series, titled “L’École d’Anvers,” gathers likenesses of artists associated with Antwerp’s historic sch...