Portrait of Countess de MORNY
Photography
Inventory number
2020.8.25.7.PH.VI.C1865.FRAuthor:
Eugène DISDÉRI (French, 1819 – 1889)Description
Full-length photograph of a young woman known as Sophie TROUBETSKOY (1836 - 1898), Russian princess, married to Charles de MORNY (count and further Duke), half-brother of Napoleon III. The noble lady is posing sitting in a chair at the table with a book, and looking on the side. She is wearing a crinoline mourning dress with a dark Chantilly lace matte silk shawl.This photograph is typically a "carte de visite" format, format invented by André Adolphe Eugène DISDERI in 1854.
Material
Analog photographyOrigin
circa 1865 Paris, FranceDimensions
Length : 6 cmHeight : 9.5 cm