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The Oak Room
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
- Institution
- Getty Museum
Interior view of a wood-paneled room with a round table and four chairs near the center of the image. A six-armed chandelier can be seen above the table. A large tapestry, one of the panels of "Atalanta and Meleager Hunting the Calydonian Boar" by the Gobelins Tapestry Factory, is visible adjacent to the opened door on the left area of the image.
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