Appendix II: Cartes de Visite

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Appendix II: Cartes de Visite

Gloria Groom (Editor)

Impressionism, Fashion, and Modernity

~This is a representative selection of cartes de visite, or visiting cards, by the Parisian photographer André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri (French, 1819–1889). All (with the exception of the one to the immediate right) are in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. In 1854, Disdéri patented this type of small...

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Gloria Groom (Editor)

PublisherArt Institute of Chicago

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Appendix II: Cartes de Visite

This is a representative selection of cartes de visite, or visiting cards, by the Parisian photographer André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri (French, 1819–1889). All (with the exception of the one) are in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. In 1854, Disdéri patented this type of small photograph, along with a method for making eight separate negatives on a single plate, which greatly reduced production costs. Usually an albumen print measuring a little more than two by three inches, individual “cartes” were mounted on thick card stock so that they could be traded with friends and visitors. “Cartomania” was so intense that it led to the publication and eager collection of cartes of prominent people (especially actresses), which in turn gave consumers information on contemporary fashion and how to wear it.

All cartes de visite are albumen silver prints from glass negatives.

Description: Napoléon Coste by Disdéri, André Adolphe-Eugène

1. Untitled carte de visite, 1859. 19.9 × 23.2 cm (7 ⅞ × 9 ⅛ in.). The Art Institute of Chicago, restricted gift of Helen Harvey Mills in honor of Katherine Bussard, 2006.314

Description: Monsieur and Madame Musard from Demi-Monde II 57 by Disdéri, André...

2. Monsieur and Madame Musard from Demi-Monde II 57, 1860. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gilman Collection, gift of The Howard Gilman Foundation, 2005, 2005.100.588.3, p. 91

Description: Héloise from Demi-Monde II 57 by Disdéri, André Adolphe-Eugène

3. Héloise from Demi-Monde II 57, 1863. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gilman Collection, gift of The Howard Gilman Foundation, 2005, 2005.100.588.3, p. 22

Description: Gabrielle; Gutierrez de Estrada from Demi-Monde II 57 by Disdéri, André...

4. Gabrielle; Gutierrez de Estrada from Demi-Monde II 57, 1867. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gilman Collection, gift of The Howard Gilman Foundation, 2005, 2005.100.588.3, p. 10

Description: Berthe from Demi-Monde I 56 by Disdéri, André Adolphe-Eugène

5. Berthe from Demi-Monde I 56, 1862. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gilman Collection, gift of The Howard Gilman Foundation, 2005, 2005.100.588.2, p. 78

Description: Cora Pearl from Demi-Monde I 56 by Disdéri, André Adolphe-Eugène

6. Cora Pearl from Demi-Monde I 56, 1862. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gilman Collection, gift of The Howard Gilman Foundation, 2005, 2005.100.588.2, p. 26

Description: Madame Surrivan from Demi-Monde II 57 by Disdéri, André...

7. Madame Surrivan from Demi-Monde II 57, 1866. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gilman Collection, gift of The Howard Gilman Foundation, 2005, 2005.100.588.3, p. 139

Description: Beresford from Demi-Monde I 56 by Disdéri, André Adolphe-Eugène

8. Beresford from Demi-Monde I 56, 1867. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gilman Collection, gift of The Howard Gilman Foundation, 2005, 2005.100.588.2, p. 53

Description: Gabrielle from Demi-Monde II 57 by Disdéri, André Adolphe-Eugène

9. Gabrielle from Demi-Monde II 57, 1867. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gilman Collection, gift of The Howard Gilman Foundation, 2005, 2005.100.588.3, p. 11

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BOOKImpressionism, Fashion, and Modernity

Gloria Groom (Editor)

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00356

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This fascinating volume is the first to explore fashion as a critical aspect of modernity, one that paralleled and many times converged with the development of Impressionism, starting in the 1860s and continuing through the next two decades, when fashion attracted the foremost writers and artists of the day. Although they have depicted fashionable subjects throughout history, for many artists and writers, including Charles Baudelaire, Stéphane Mallarmé, Émile Zola, Gustave Caillebotte, Edgar Degas, Édouard Manet, Claude Monet, Berthe Morisot, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir, fashion became integral to the search for new literary and visual expression.

In a series of essays that examine fashion and its social, cultural, and artistic context during some of the most important years of the Impressionist era—years that also gave birth to the modern fashion industry—a group of fifteen scholars, drawn from five interdisciplinary fields, examine approximately 140 Impressionist-era artworks, including those by dedicated fashion portraitists, in light of the rise of the department store, new working methods for designing clothing, and new social and technological changes that led to the democratization of fashion and, simultaneously, its ascendance as a vehicle for modernity.

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Gloria Groom (Editor)

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