Village Scene (Southern France) (c. 1853): Art, History and Details

Village Scene (Southern France) (c. 1853) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is André Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri (French, 1819–1889).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

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.

Object facts

• Title: Village Scene (Southern France)
• Date: c. 1853
• Creator attribution: André Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri (French, 1819–1889)
• Culture: France, 19th century
• Type: Photograph
• Technique: 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.)
• Collection: PH - French 19th Century
• Department: Photography
• Accession number: 1996.352

A detail from the museum

This image was printed from a waxed-paper negative, a process superseded by the sharper, clearer glass plate negative.

Collection credit

John L. Severance Fund

View the collection record

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