Monsieur Jadin and Son

c. 1860

André Adolphe-Eugené Disdéri

Associated Names
André Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri

Artist, French, 1819 - 1889

The image displays eight photographs arranged in two rows. The first row features pairs of Victorian-era individuals - an older man and a younger man. The older man is bald with a beard, dressed formally, leaning against a column. The younger man, also in formal attire, stands by a balustrade and seems to be writing or drawing. The second row shows the same younger man alone in different poses next to the column and balustrade. He wears a similar outfit, including a bow tie, and holds either a top hat and walking stick or a book. The background consists of a plain wall with decorative pillars and a balustrade, set in a formal interior with a patterned floor.

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Charles Isaacs Photographs Inc., New York); purchased 2008 by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2019

  • The Eye of the Sun: Nineteenth-Century Photographs from the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2019, unnumbered catalogue.

Inscriptions

on negative: 14400

Wikidata ID

Q64073927

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