Prince Gortschakoff
André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri
1860–69
Medium
Albumen print
Dimensions
Image/paper: 8.6 × 5.4 cm (3 7/16 × 2 3/16 in.); Mount: 10 × 6.1 cm (3 15/16 × 2 7/16 in.)
Classification
photograph
Department
Photography and Media
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
228222
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...