Mlle Thouvenot [?]; Mlle Vallier

Mlle Thouvenot [?]; Mlle Vallier by André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri

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

2005.100.588.1.144

About the Artist

André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri · 18191889

**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...

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