Episcopat

Episcopat

Photograph

André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri

Maker
French, 1819–1889

Episcopat

From the album Louis Napoléon album


ca. 1862
Albumen silver print
Image: 4 × 2 3/8 in. (10.2 × 6 cm)
Gift of Eastman Kodak Company, ex-collection Gabriel Cromer
1981.1205.0048b
DescriptionPhotomontage with fifteen individual portraits and one group portrait. Each image is framed within an oval and the individual's name is printed within the frame. Center oval is a photograph of Pope Pius IX. Surrounding the center oval (from top and clockwise) are Cardinal de Bonald, Monsignor Level, Monsignor Martial, Monsignor Chigi, Monsignor Vaveoux, Monsignor Pavy, Monsignor De Ségur, Cardinal Antonelli, Monsignor Landroit, Monsignor Larangeria. The bottom oval is a group photograph labeled with the name of Monsignor Félix Dupanloup and the words: Ex les Professeurs du Séminaire de la Chapelle St. Mesmin. There are four photographs, two on either side of the group portrait, and the individuals pictured are: R.P. Bernard, Abbé Sarat, Monsignor Spencer, Abbé Carron.
Inscriptions Inscribed in pencil (Cromer's hand) on album page, T \ B: Disdéri \ Episcopat
Printed in image, recto, BC: Episcopat 7
Printed in image, recto, BR: [profile portrait of Disdéri] [encircled] Disdéri Phot
Inscribed in black ink, image recto, BL: 97.o 3
Inscribed in pencil (Cromer's hand) on verso: fonds Disdéri
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