The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 25, 2024
Village Scene (Southern France)
c. 1853
(French, 1819–1889)
Image: 15.2 x 12.2 cm (6 x 4 13/16 in.); Matted: 45.7 x 35.6 cm (18 x 14 in.)
John L. Severance Fund 1996.352
Location: not on view
Description
Although best known for his development of the carte-de-visite photograph which immortalized many a Parisian, Disdéri's photographic career began around 1850 in a daguerrian studio in Brest. Beset with financial problems, he left his studio, wife, and family and moved to Nîmes in December 1852 or January 1853 where he learned the wet collodion-on-glass and wax paper negative processes. The oval vignette cropping and picturesque approach to the posed, but seemingly spontaneous, arrangement of figures and animals engaged in an outdoor activity in Village Scene is typical of the work Disdéri produced in Nîmes in 1853, for he abandoned the wax paper negative soon after learning it.- France at the Dawn of Photography. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 4, 2009-January 24, 2010).The Cleveland Museum of Art (10/04/2009 - 01/24/2010); "France at the Dawn of Photography"
- {{cite web|title=Village Scene (Southern France)|url=false|author=André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri|year=c. 1853|access-date=25 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}
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