Portrait of a Man and His Dog
Pascal Sébah (Turkish, 1823–1886)
1875–1885
- 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.)
- Genre
- photograph
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Styles
Tags
Turkey
About
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.