Mlle Sanlaville; Galland
Medium
Albumen silver print from glass negative
Dimensions
Image: 7 3/8 × 9 1/4 in. (18.8 × 23.5 cm) Album page: 10 3/8 × 13 3/4 in. (26.3 × 35 cm)
Classification
Photographs
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gilman Collection, Gift of The Howard Gilman Foundation, 2005
Accession Number
2005.100.588.1.100
Art Historical Context
In 1865, French photographer André-Adolpheugène Disdéri *Mlle Sanlaville; Galland*, a striking albumen silver print portrait that exemplifies the golden age of 19th-century photography.déri, a pioneer in commercial portraiture, revolutionized the medium with his invention of the carte de visite small, affordable card-mounted photograph that swept Europe and America during the 1850s and 1860s. This image, featuring the poised figure of Mlle Sanlavillelikely an actress or performer, with "Galland" possibly denoting a studio associate), reflects the era's fascination with celebrity likenesses, co...
About the Artist
André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri · 1819–1889
**André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri** (1819–1889) was a pioneering French photographer whose innovations transformed portraiture into a mass medium during the Second Empire. Born on March 28, 1819, in Paris, Disdéri pursued diverse careers in commerce, acting, and politics early on, while studying art amid personal hardships following his father's death, which compelled him to support his mother, sibli...