Mlle Savel 1860

This carte de visite album page, titled "Mlle Savel," captures a sequence of six poses of a young woman in a frilled dress, a popular format for photographic albums in the mid-19th century. Created by renowned French photographer André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri, the album page showcases his mastery of capturing movement, a key characteristic of his innovative studio practice. Disdéri is best known for his groundbreaking method of creating small, standardized photographs, known as carte de visite, which became a popular form of portraiture and social documentation in the 1860s.