Femmes musulmanes Syriennes à Beyrouth, Costume de Ville (Man on a Donkey)

c. 1880s

Félix Bonfils

(French, 1831–1885)

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Culture

France

Medium

Photochrom

Measurements

Image: 22.5 x 16.4 cm (8 7/8 x 6 7/16 in.); Paper: 22.5 x 16.4 cm (8 7/8 x 6 7/16 in.); Mounted: 26.6 x 18.1 cm (10 1/2 x 7 1/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of William and Margaret Lipscomb 2021.208.a

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Location

Not on view

Did You Know?

In the early 1880s,FélixBonfils was among the first photographers to use the Photocrom process, which producedcolor images from a single black-and-white negative.

Description

To make a photochrom, a photographic negative was transferred onto a lithographic stone, then printers created a minimum of six and up to fifteen different stones, each with a single color of ink, which were printed atop the black-and-white image. The printers creating the colors had never seen the original locale. Photochroms were popular from the 1890s into the 1910s and were most often collected in albums or framed and hung on the wall.