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Portrait of an Unknown Young Man
Also titled Portret van een onbekende jongeman
c. 1865
- Classification
- carte-de-visite
- Dimensions
- height 105 mm x width 62 mm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- 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
Carte-de-visite portraits were the major source of income for professional photographers. Wegner, a German lithographer, established himself in Amsterdam in 1849. We know with certainty that he already had a photography studio in 1855, and from 1862 he worked together with Mottu. The duo became the city’s most sought-aftersociety photographers. This photograph – presumably of an assistant – was a joke: the young man was also recorded from behind.
