Title
Napoléon IIIArtist
Mayer Frères (French, 1841-1855)Date
1853Process
AlbumenAtelier
Niepce de Saint-VictorImage Size
20 x 15.7 cm
This albumen print appears to be some sort of composite with hand retouching. It is possible that it was used as a base for Niépce st. Victor’s heliograph of the same image. More research is necessary.
Reproduced / Exhibited
Jammes, André, De Nieìpce AÌ Stieglitz: La Photographie En Taille-Douce : [exposition], 19 Novembre 1982-20 Feìvrier 1983, Museìe De L’elyseìe, Lausanne. Lausanne: Le Museìe, 1982 no. 28
De Andere Fotografie de Geschiedenis van de Fotomechanische Reproductie in de Negentiende Eeuw: tentoonstelling in het Zeeuws Museum Middelburg 1989 (The Other Photography the History of Photomechanical Reproduction in the Nineteenth Century: Exhibition in the Zeeuws Museum Middelburg 1989) Exhibited chk. 21
McCauley, Elizabeth Anne, AAE Disdéri and the business card portrait photograph, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985.
References
1 Cosmos : revue encyclopédique hebdomadaire des progrès des sciences et de leurs applications aux arts et à l’industrie, Bureaux du Cosmos, Paris, 1852 p. 274
