Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00000363Village Scene (Southern France)
About the Artwork
André Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri is best known for his development in Paris in 1854 of the carte-de-visite format for portraits. The year before, he was living in Southern France where he made this rural view. Disderi used waxed-paper negatives for only a short time. The oval cropping and picturesque scene—posed but seemingly spontaneous—suggest that this is meant to be an artistic, rather than a documentary, photograph.
Inscriptions
Written in black ink on recto: "Disdéri, Photographe"; in pencil on verso: "10 N[?]"; 1853 [underlined]"
Exhibition history
France at the Dawn of Photography. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 4, 2009-January 24, 2010). France in the Time of Manet and Morisot. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 10-August 23, 2026).
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 7, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- André Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri (French, 1819–1889)
- Date
- c. 1853
- Medium
- salted paper print from waxed-paper negative
- Dimensions
- Image: 15.2 x 12.2 cm (6 x 4 13/16 in.); Matted: 45.7 x 35.6 cm (18 x 14 in.)
- Type
- Photograph
- Classification
- Photograph
- Department
- Photography
- Credit line
- John L. Severance Fund
- Accession no.
- 1996.352
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