Village Scene (Southern France)
1853
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
1853
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Village Scene (Southern France) is a 1853 by André Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri, a Romanticism work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
This painting shows a quiet village street in Southern France. Stone houses line a dirt road. A woman in a long dress walks toward a man near a cart. Disdéri switched from daguerreotypes to wet collodion glass in 1853. This new method let him capture sharper details. His work feels like an early photograph. If you like this, check out Disdéri’s famous Parisian portraits.
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.
This image was printed from a waxed-paper negative, a process superseded by the sharper, clearer glass plate negative.
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André Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri (1819–1889) was a French artist.
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