Chambre de Louis XIV

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Chambre de Louis XIV

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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: 1857
Medium: Albumen silver print
Culture: French
Department: Photographs
Institution: Getty Museum
Object ID: b68fe718-412e-45ba-bf44-42d892c07a22

Interior view of an opulently decorated room, with a canopied bed seen on the lower center area of the image. A balustrade can be seen separating the bed from the area in the foreground.

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