Madame Carrelle
Mayer et Pierson
1856/57
Medium
Salted paper print
Dimensions
Image/paper: 29 × 22.3 cm (11 7/16 × 8 13/16 in.)
Classification
salted paper print
Department
Photography and Media
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
157059
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
The studio known as Mayer and Pierson was the joint venture of Pierre-Louis Pierson (1822–1913), and brothers Léopold Ernest Mayer (1817–1865) and Louis Frédéric Mayer (1822–1912), who also had run separate daguerreotype studios in Paris. Working in partnership from 1855, the trio captured portraits of French society and royalty, most notably the family and court of Napoleon III. The studio became known for an objective, unmannered, but elegantly fashionable style that became popular in the Fren...