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Portrait of Andreas Mülbracht and his Wife Dorothea Catharina Machtelde Mülbracht-Lax te Goch
Also titled Portret van Mr. Andreas Mülbracht en zijn echtgenote Dorothea Catharina Machtelde Mülbracht-Lax te Goch
Carl Rensing (Soest (Duitsland), 1826–1898)
c. 1845 - c. 1860
- Medium
- copper (metal), paper, silver (metal), glass
- Classification
- photograph
- Dimensions
- height 133 mm x width 160 mm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Gift of M.J. van Hövell tot Westerflier, Amsterdam
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, 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
About this work
This portrait exhibits the magical power of daguerreotypy. The photograph of the elderly couple is pinpointsharp and exceptionally realistic. Such an image must have had a great impact on the beholders. The texture of the skin, with its wrinkles and irregularities, was captured in detail. Rensing’s work was displayed at the first photography show in Amsterdam in 1855. He established himself as a portrait photographer in the Dutch capital.
