Le liseur
1860s
Medium
Albumen silver print from glass negative
Dimensions
8.6 x 12.1 cm. (3 3/8 x 4 3/4 in.)
Classification
Photographs
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
David Hunter McAlpin Fund, 1975
Accession Number
1975.548.218
Tags
Art Historical Context
**Le liseur (The Reader)** Pierre-Louis Pierson,ca. 1860s* Albumen silver print glass negative, 86 × 12.1 cm. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, York, David Hunter McAlpin Fund, 1975 Step into the intimate world of 19th Paris with Pierre-Louis Pierson's * liseur* (The Reader), a delicate albumen silver print capturing a young girl lost in her book. Created in the 1860s during France's Second Empire, this portrait exemplifies the era's fascination with personal, evocative photography. Pierson, a prominent Parisian photographer associated with the Mayer Brothers studio, specialized in refine...
About the Artist
Pierre-Louis Pierson · 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...