Carte de visite albumen portrait identified as a self portrait of André Adolphe Eugène Disdéri, photographed in his own studio and bearing the printed credit "Disdéri Photo." Disdéri was a pioneering French photographer best known for popularizing the carte de visite format in the 1850s. The portrait shows him standing beside a studio table holding a hat, with sculptural studio props visible in the background.
The mount bears the printed studio addresses for Paris, London, and Hanover Square, indicating the period of Disdéri's international operations. A contemporary inscription on the reverse identifies the sitter as "A. A. E. Disdéri Photographer and inventor of the CDV 1854," accompanied by a large period-style signature.
An important photographic portrait of one of the central figures in nineteenth-century photographic history and the inventor most closely associated with the commercial success of the carte de visite format.