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Family Portrait of Rosa, Jeanne, and Carel Asser
Also titled Familieportret van Rosa, Jeanne en Carel Asser
Eduard Isaac Asser (Amsterdam, 1809–1894)
c. 1850 - c. 1855
- Medium
- copper (metal)
- Classification
- photograph
- Dimensions
- height 162 mm x width 132 mm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Gift of the Stichting Familie Asser
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
About this work
Asser here successfully portrayed the children of his beloved sister Netje. The daguerreotype process was so slow that we can hardly imagine what it was like to pose for the camera. The long exposure time is reflected in the sitters’ faces. Their concentrated gaze and every detail seems engraved in the plate, and it is precisely this aspect that makes such photographs so magical. Active children were the most difficult to portray, as their photographs images could blur so easily.
