Mosaique: The Imperial Court of Napoleon III
c. 1866
- Medium
- albumen print, montage carte-de-visite
- Dimensions
- 9.1 × 5.6 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-190330
The mosaic cards offered visual catalogues of the luminaries of a profession or social group in a single photograph. Here the emperor, his wife, and son top a pyramid of statesmen, soldiers, artists, writers, and others affiliated with the imperial court. This image was produced by cutting hundreds of figures photographed by Disdéri away from their backgrounds, mounting the likenesses on a single sheet, photographing that collage, and printing it on 6 x 9 cm cards.
Provenance
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Barbara Tannenbaum and Mark Soppeland, 2019.69
Registry history
- c. 1866 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art — photographs
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