# Portrait of a Man and His Dog

- By: Pascal Sébah (Turkish, 1823–1886)
- Date: 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
- Credit line: Collection of Herbert Ascherman Jr.
- Museum: [Cleveland Museum of Art](https://clevelandart.org/art/2017.28)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2017.28/2017.28_web.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.