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LEOPOLD ERNEST (1817-c.1865) & LOUIS FREDERIC MAYER & PIERRE-LOUIS PIERSON (1822-1912) [MAYER & PIERSON], A.A.E. DISDERI AND OTHERS

Society and theatrical portraits, c.1857-early 60s

细节

LEOPOLD ERNEST (1817-c.1865) & LOUIS FREDERIC MAYER & PIERRE-LOUIS PIERSON (1822-1912) [MAYER & PIERSON], A.A.E. DISDERI AND OTHERS
Society and theatrical portraits, c.1857-early 60s
2 albums with a total of 411 albumen print cartes-de-visite.
All but 5 captioned with sitters' names, each ruled in ink. Majority mounted 2-per-page. Each album with ink manuscript date '1858' on front free endpaper. Each green leather, impressed title 'Portraits' on front cover and volume number on spine.
Album size: 8¾ x 13in. (22.2 x 32.5cm.) each (2)

出版

M. Frizot, A New History of Photography, Cologne, 1998, p.112, Famous Frenchmen, c.1864, there noted "On April 23, 1863, Disdéri filed a patent application to protect his rights over what he called the 'mosaic', a composite carte de visite, a photo-montage of portraits of different people. This type of composition was only ever produced in this small format."; W. Darrah, Cartes de Visite in Nineteenth Century Photography, Gettysburg, 1981, p.5, fig.3.

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拍品专文

Vol.I (155) includes actors from Opéra Comique and Théâtre Français, as well as a composite carte of portraits of opera and dance celebrities; Vol.II (256) includes l'Empereur Napoléon III, l'Impératrice Eugènie, Prince & Princess de Metternich, President Abraham Lincoln, Isambard Kingdom Brunel and launching chains of the "Great Eastern" (variant of Robert Howlett's 1857 image), Baron Gros (painter), Alexandre Dumas (writer), Rossini (composer) and a composite carte of "Famous Frenchmen".