Mlle Guibert[?]; Mlle Laurent
![Mlle Guibert[?]; Mlle Laurent by André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri](https://images.artheonmuseum.org/met/ph/thumb/mlle-guibert-mlle-laurent-705000.webp)
Medium
Albumen silver print from glass negative
Dimensions
Image: 7 3/8 × 9 1/4 in. (18.8 × 23.5 cm) Album page: 10 3/8 × 13 3/4 in. (26.3 × 35 cm)
Classification
Photographs
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gilman Collection, Gift of The Howard Gilman Foundation, 2005
Accession Number
2005.100.588.1.139
Art Historical Context
Step into the elegant world of1860s Parisian portraiture with *Mlle Guibert[?]; Mlle Laurent* by André-Adolpheugène Disdéri, a master innovator in early photography. Created in 1862, this double portrait likely captures two young women—possibly actresses, given the "Mlle honorific—posed with poised grace against a studio backdrop. Disdéri, a French photographer, revolutionized the medium by inventing the *carte de visite* around 1854: compact, affordable card-mounted images that exploded in popularity, turning photography into a social phenomenon. Printed as an albumen silver print from a gla...
About the Artist
André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri · 1819–1889
**André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri** (1819–1889) was a pioneering French photographer whose innovations transformed portraiture into a mass medium during the Second Empire. Born on March 28, 1819, in Paris, Disdéri pursued diverse careers in commerce, acting, and politics early on, while studying art amid personal hardships following his father's death, which compelled him to support his mother, sibli...