Cleveland Museum of Art
Artist with His Palette and Brushes
- Date
- c. 1855
- Medium
- daguerreotype, sixth-plate
- Culture
- America
- Department
- Photography
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 162302
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
This unidentified photographer created a disarmingly personal portrait of a painter holding the tools of his craft. Skillfully lit, the composition achieves a surprising amount of spontaneity and animation. The generous natural illumination of the studio clearly defines the volume of the figure. Perhaps to acknowledge the painter's flamboyant personality, the photographer enriched the portrait by adding hand-applied color to the sitter's large bow tie. The elaborately designed fez, placed at a jaunty angle atop the painter's head, suggests his interest in Orientalism, a fashion that fascinated many mid 19th-century artists.
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- Credit line
- John L. Severance Fund
- Provenance
- (Charles Isaacs Photographs, Inc., New York, NY) | June 3, 2002: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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19th Century Cased PhotographsThese objects are all early photographic formats from the mid-19th century, including daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, and tintypes, often hand-tinted and presented in cases.
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