Collection Online as of September 25, 2023
Portrait of a Man and His Dog
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.)
Collection of Herbert Ascherman, Jr. 2017.28
Location
not on view
Description
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.