Mrs. Alice Raphael
1890s
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
14.9 x 10.0 cm. (5 7/8 x 3 15/16 in.)
Classification
Photographs
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Alice Raphael, 1960
Accession Number
60.710.2
Tags
Art Historical Context
In the late 1890s, French photographer Aimé Dupont capturedMrs. Alice Raphael* a delicate gelatin silver print, a pioneering medium that revolutionized photography with its superior detail, rich tonal range, and stability compared to earlier processes like albumen. Measuring just 14.9 x 10.0 cm, this intimate portrait exemplifies the era's cabinet card tradition, popular for personal albums and social exchange among the bourgeoisie. The image, tagged as a portrait of a, likely depicts a young Alice Raphael—later the donor who gifted it to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1960—evoking the Vic...