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AndrÈ Adolphe EugËne DisdÈri, artist
French, 1819 - 1889
Adelaide Ristori as MedÈe, circa 1858
albumen print mounted to a heavier sheet
8.5 x 5.2 cm (image)
Museum purchase, Virginia Shields Memorial Fund, Reese Llewelyn Milner Memorial Fund and Cara White Memorial Fund 1992.38

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Artist Biography: Born 28 March 1819 in Paris. Patented the carte-de-visite in 1854 as * Les perfectionnements en photographie*. . Died 4 October 1889 in Paris, blind,deaf, and impoverished.

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