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[Album page with ten photographs of La Comtesse mounted recto and verso]

1861–67
Not on view

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: [Album page with ten photographs of La Comtesse mounted recto and verso]
  • Artist: Pierre-Louis Pierson (French, 1822–1913)
  • Person in Photograph: Countess Virginia Oldoini Verasis di Castiglione (1835–1899)
  • Date: 1861–67
  • Medium: Albumen silver prints from glass negative
  • Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.6 cm (4 1/4 x 3 3/8 in.) to 2.5 x 3.5 cm (1 x 1 3/8 in.)
  • Classification: Photographs
  • Credit Line: David Hunter McAlpin Fund, 1975
  • Object Number: 1975.548.263–.267
  • Curatorial Department: Photographs
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