Scherzo di Follia
1863–66, printed 1940s
Medium
Gelatin silver print from glass negative
Dimensions
Image: 7 3/8 × 4 15/16 in. (18.8 × 12.5 cm) Sheet: 7 3/8 × 4 15/16 in. (18.8 × 12.5 cm) Mount: 11 15/16 in. × 9 in. (30.4 × 22.9 cm)
Classification
Photographs
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of George Davis, 1948
Accession Number
48.188
Tags
About the Artist
Pierre-Louis Pierson|Countess Virginia Oldoini Verasis di Castiglione · 1822–1913
Pierre-Louis Pierson (1822–1913) was a pioneering French portrait photographer whose career spanned the formative years of the medium. Born on December 13, 1822, in Hinckange in the Moselle department, Pierson developed an early fascination with photography during the 1840s, as the daguerreotype was still in its infancy. His early life and formal training remain sparsely documented, but by 1844, h...