Les edoiles de jois
1860s
Medium
Albumen silver print from glass negative
Classification
Photographs
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
David Hunter McAlpin Fund, 1975
Accession Number
1975.548.167
Tags
Art Historical Context
**Les Étoiles de Jo** (*The Stars of Joy*), a captivating albumen silver print from a negative by Pierre-Louis Pi, dates to the 1860s and exemplifies the glamour of Second Empire France. Pierson, a prominent Parisian photographer associated with the Disdéri studio, specialized elegant society portraits, often capturing the elite in opulent attire. This photograph, housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Photographs Department (acquired via the David McAlpin Fund in1975), belongs to a genre of women's portraits that celebrated feminine beauty and fashion during a time when photography was re...
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...