Cleveland Museum of Art
Femmes musulmanes Syriennes à Beyrouth, Costume de Ville
Félix BonfilsLinkedCulture matchlcp-bf1bb1518734
- Date
- c. 1867–78
- Medium
- Albumen print from glass plate negative
- Culture
- France
- Department
- Photography
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 449529
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
French photographer Félix Bonfils settled with his wife and child in Beirut in 1867 and opened a photography studio which his family continued to operate until 1918. Their offerings included landscapes and cityscapes, portraits, and posed scenes including examples of Middle Eastern dress such as this one, which shows the full-body and face veils worn in public by some, although not all, Muslim women in public in Beirut. Many Westerners found the full veils worn by Muslim women in mid-nineteenth-century Beirut both fascinating and disturbing.
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- Credit line
- Gift of William and Margaret Lipscomb
- Provenance
- ?-2021: William S. and Margaret, Shaker Heights, OH, given to The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH | December 6, 2021: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Places this record points to
- Beirut — LebanonMatched from the record’s own words: “Beyrouth”
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