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Village Scene (Southern France)

c. 1853

André Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri

(French, 1819–1889)
Culture
France, 19th century
Medium
salted paper print from waxed-paper negative
Measurements
Image: 15.2 x 12.2 cm (6 x 4 13/16 in.); Matted: 45.7 x 35.6 cm (18 x 14 in.)
Credit Line
John L. Severance Fund 1996.352
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Location
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Print
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This image was printed from a waxed-paper negative, a process superseded by the sharper, clearer glass plate negative.

Description

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.
A vertically oriented salted paper print in muted brown tones depicts a village scene within a drawn oval border. People and animals cluster by a long stone trough. To the left, a woman in a dark dress and white bonnet stands near a child bending over baskets. To the right, a man in a hat stands beside a white horse, a dark horse, and a dog. Dense trees and a rustic fence fill the background.

Village Scene (Southern France)

c. 1853

André Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri

(French, 1819–1889)
France, 19th century

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