[Painted portrait of Queen Marie Amélie by Ary Scheffer]

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[Painted portrait of Queen Marie Amélie by Ary Scheffer]

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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

Photograph of a portrait of Marie Amélie, Queen of the French, by Ary Scheffer. The Queen is depicted in her old age, seated in a large chair while holding a book under her right hand. Her left hand rests on the chair's arm.

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