Napoléon III et Eugénie

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Napoléon III et Eugénie

Creator

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 1870
Medium
Albumen silver print
Culture
French
Department
Photographs
Institution
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Napoleon III and Eugenie posing in a studio as a "bourgeois" couple.

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