[La Comtesse at Table holding Fan]
![[La Comtesse at Table holding Fan] by Pierre-Louis Pierson|Countess Virginia Oldoini Verasis di Castiglione](https://images.artheonmuseum.org/met/ph/thumb/la-comtesse-at-table-holding-fan-261473.webp)
Medium
Salted paper print from glass negative with applied color
Dimensions
54.9 x 36.2 cm (21 5/8 x 14 1/4 in.)
Classification
Photographs
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
David Hunter McAlpin Fund, 1975
Accession Number
1975.548.273
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About the Artist
Pierre-Louis Pierson|Countess Virginia Oldoini Verasis di Castiglione · 1822–1913
Pierre-Louis Pierson (1822–1913) was a pioneering French portrait photographer whose career spanned the formative years of the medium. Born on December 13, 1822, in Hinckange in the Moselle department, Pierson developed an early fascination with photography during the 1840s, as the daguerreotype was still in its infancy. His early life and formal training remain sparsely documented, but by 1844, h...