[Interior view of a room]

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[Interior view of a room]

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André Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri

French Photographer · 1819–1889

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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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Date: about 1866
Medium: Albumen silver print
Culture: French
Department: Photographs
Institution: Getty Museum

Interior view of a finely appointed room. Two paintings can be seen hanging on the wall, while a crystal chandelier hangs above a round table. The painting in the center of the image is of Victoria, Duchess of Kent, with her daughter, the then Princess Victoria, by or after William Beechey. The other painting is a portrait of Queen Victoria by or after John Partridge.

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