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André Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri

Mosaique: The Imperial Court of Napoleon III

c. 1866
albumen print, montage carte-de-visite

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Disdéri bragged that the mosaique could offer a picture of “from two or three persons up to a thousand for the same price” as a photograph of one individual.

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