Eugène Atget

Rue du Regard

1899

albumen print, gold toned

Nadar

Alexandre Dumas père (1802–1870)

1855

salted paper print from wet collodion negative

Charles Marville

Rue de la Ferronnerie

c. 1865

albumen print from wet collodion negative

Eugène Atget

Rue de la Montagne-Sainte-Geneviève

1898

albumen print, gold toned

Robert Demachy

Untitled

c. 1900–1906

gum bichromate print

Auguste-Rosalie Bisson

Mount Maudit, Savoy

1860

albumen print from wet collodion negative

Gustave Le Gray

The Bridge of Palalda (near Amelieles-Bains)

1851–52

salted paper print from waxed-paper negative

Charles Marville

Sky Study, Paris

1856–57

albumen print from wet collodion negative

Charles Soulier

Notre Dame de Paris

early 1860s

albumen print from glass negative

Louis-Émile Durandelle

Ornamental Scupture

c. 1865–72

albumen print from wet collodion negative

Édouard Baldus

Pavilion Richelieu, Louvre, Paris

1856–57

salted paper print, albumenized, from wet collodion negative

Adolphe Braun

Untitled (Farm Animals)

1850s

albumen print from wet collodion negative

Édouard Baldus

Notre-Dame, Paris

1852–53

salted paper print from wet collodion negative

Charles Nègre

The Tiber, Tuileries Garden, Paris

1859

albumen print from wet collodion negative

André Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri

Monsieur Merlen

1861

albumen print from wet collodion negative, uncut carte-de-visite proof print

Farnham Maxwell Lyte

Road to Eaux-Chaudes, Pyrenees (recto); Eaux-Chaudes, Pyrenees (verso)

c. 1855

albumen print from wet collodion negative

Farnham Maxwell Lyte

Road to Eaux-Chaudes, Pyrenees (recto)

c. 1855

albumen print from wet collodion negative

Jean-Jacques Heilmann

Gorge at Eaux Chaudes, Pyrenees

c. 1855

salted paper print from wet collodion negative

Jules DuClos

Pont-de-Buis, on the Doufine, France

c. 1865

albumen print from wet collodion negative

Étienne Carjat

Sarah Bernhardt in "Zaire" by Voltaire

1874

albumen print from wet collodion negative

Nadar

Man on a Horse

c. 1860s

albumen print from wet collodion negative

André Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri

Village Scene (Southern France)

c. 1853

salted paper print from waxed-paper negative

Guglielmo Marconi

Male Nude

c. 1870–75

albumen print from wet collodion negative

Camille Dolard

Self-Portrait in Painting Studio

c. 1843

daguerreotype (full-plate)

Edmond Bacot

Young Girl Seated on Straw, Leaning on a Basket

1862

albumen print from wet collodion negative

Adolphe Braun

Woman in Lorraine Dress

c. 1871

carbon print

Black Horseman in Front of a Doorway

c. 1855

salt print from wet collodion negative

Child Standing on a Chair Holding Flowers, with Mother

c. 1855

daguerreotype, quarter-plate

Auguste Giraudon

Female Peasant Carrying a Basket and Hay

c. 1870

albumen print from wet collodion negative

Adrien Tournachon

Portrait of Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791–1864)

1857

salt print from wet collodion negative

Henri Le Secq

Behind the Troglodyte Farm

c. 1853

salted paper print from waxed paper negative

Charles Marville

Opéra (Rostral Column)

c. 1875

albumen print from wet collodion negative

Charles Marville

Rue Jean-de-Beauvais. Vue prise de la rue des Écoles vers la boulevard Saint-Germain, en travaux

1865–69

albumen print from wet collodion negative

Auguste Giraudon's Artist

Man with Walking Stick

late 1870's

albumen print from wet collodion negative

Auguste Giraudon's Artist

Two Shepherdesses Resting with Two Sheep

late 1870s

albumen print from wet collodion negative

Charles Soulier

Silenus Holding the Child Dionysus, Louvre Museum, Paris

c. 1860s

albumen print from collodion negative

Etienne Carjat

Untitled (Portrait of a Man)

1879

Photograph on enamel in copper alloy frame with velvet liner

Etienne Carjat

Untitled (Portrait of a Woman)

1879

Photograph on enamel in copper alloy frame with velvet liner

André Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri

Untitled (French Military Heroes and Political Leaders)

mid-1860s

albumen print, montage carte-de-visite

Untitled (Case with portraits of a man and woman and hair ornaments)

c. 1870s

Photographs: photographs on enamel, framed in copper alloy metal frames; hair lockets: hair with pen and black and ink on cream-colored backing; case: leather with metal push-clasp and velvet-lined interior

Etienne Carjat

Untitled (Pair of Portraits)

1879

Photographs on enamel in copper alloy frame with velvet liner

André Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri

Mosaique: The Imperial Court of Napoleon III

c. 1866

albumen print, montage carte-de-visite

Priest, France

c. 1840s–50s

daguerreotype, half-plate

Hunting Party with Badger, Loire Valley, France

c. 1850

daguerreotype, quarter plate

Adolphe Braun

Young Alsacienne Woman

c. 1871

carbon print on a ruled mount

Charles Marville

La Belle Jardinère: le magasin de la rue de la Cité pendant sa demolition, Paris

1864–66

albumen print from collodion negative

Charles Marville

Fontaine du Jardin du Luxembourg (grotte de Marie de Médécis)

c. 1850

Salted paper print, Blanquart-Évrard process

Nadar

Portrait of Ernestine Nadar, the artist's wife, wearing fur stole

c. 1880–83

uncut sheet of three matte gelatin silver carte-de-visites

Nadar

Gioachino Antonio Rossini

1856

salt print mounted on card

Édouard Baldus

Louvre, Façade rue de Rivoli, Paris

1855

albumen print

Édouard Baldus

Arc de Triomphe de l'Etoile, Paris

c. 1860s

albumen print from collodion negative

Félix Thiollier

Vue prise du Couvent des Dominicains, Chalais (Isère), France

c. 1865

albumen print from collodion negative

Nadar

Portrait of Baudelaire

1856–58

albumen print, cabinet card

Reutlinger Studios

Untitled (young boy with lace collar and toy rifle)

1880–99

gelatin silver print

Reutlinger Studios

Untitled (young boy with lace collar and toy rifle)

1880s–90s

gelatin silver print

Camille Silvy

The d’Orléans Family during a Fête Champêtre at Orléans House

1864

Enameled photograph in original metal frame