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Portrait of a Man and His Dog
Pascal Sébah (Turkish, 1823–1886)
c. 1880
- Medium
- carte-de-visite, albumen print
- Classification
- Photograph
- 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.)
- Culture
- Turkey
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Photography
- Credit line
- Collection of Herbert Ascherman Jr.
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
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.
