Portrait of a Man and His Dog
c. 1880
Pascal Sébah
Pascal Sébah (Turkish, 1823–1886)
Photography
Portrait of a Man and His Dog, c. 1880. Pascal Sébah (Turkish, 1823–1886). Carte-de-visite, albumen print; image: 9.4 x 5.8 cm (3 11/16 x 2 5/16 in.); paper: 10.2 x 6.3 cm (4 x 2 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Collection of Herbert Ascherman, Jr. 2017.28 Gift of Herbert Ascherman, Jr. Born in Constantinople to a Syrian father and Armenian mother, Sébah opened a photography studio there in either the late 1850s or ’60s. This carte de visite, a small, inexpensive photographic format developed in France and meant to be left as a calling card or collected, attests to the rapid and potent global spread of photographic technology, formats, and conventions in the mid-1800s.
- Maker/Artist
- Sébah, Pascal
- Classification
- Photograph
- Formatted Medium
- carte-de-visite, albumen print
- Medium
- carte-de-visite, albumen, print
- Dimensions
- Image: 9.4 x 5.8 cm (3 11/16 x 2 5/16 in.); Paper: 10.2 x 6.3 cm (4 x 2 1/2 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: Imprinted in red ink on recto: P. SEBAH, PHOT. Inscription: Imprinted in red ink on verso: “decorative images/PARIS 1978/PASCAL SEBAH/PARIS 1870/VIENNE 1873/PHILADELPHIA 1877/CONSTPLE/RUE DE PERA 439/a cote de l’Ambassade Russe/LE CAIRE/sur/LESBEKIEH”
- Departments
- Photography
- Accession Number
- 2017.28
- Credit Line
- Collection of Herbert Ascherman, Jr.
- Exhibitions
- BIG: Photographs from the Collection
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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