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The Waterloo Chamber. Portraits of Their Majesties the King of Prussia, the Emperor of Austria, the Emperor of Russia, and Count Nesselrode
Creator
André Adolphe-Eugène DisdériFrench Photographer · 1819–1889
All works by this person →André Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri, former merchant, actor, and daguerreotypist, patented his invention, the *carte-de-visite* (visiting card) photograph, in 1854. At nine-by-six centimeters, *cartes* were primarily portraits, about the size of a conventional calling card and soon just as popular. Disdéri established his photographic practice with the manufacture of these tiny photographs; he divided a
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- 1867
- Medium
- Albumen silver print
- Culture
- French
- Department
- Photographs
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- Getty Museum
View of a wall lined with four portrait paintings of various European heads of states and diplomat. From left to right are full-length portraits by Thomas Lawrence of King Frederick William III of Prussia, Emperor Francis I of Austria, and Tsar Alexander I of Russia, and the half-length portrait of Count Charles Robert Nesselrode, also by Lawrence. Other paintings are also visible nearby.
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