# Portrait of an Unknown Young Man

- By: Wegner & Mottu
- Date: c. 1865
- Classification: carte-de-visite
- Dimensions: height 105 mm x width 62 mm
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/RP-F-2014-93(R)--11fadb32d3f394fadd6c6cfefdff3eeb)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/854843c939aac36b3dd3f5d280ad8ed1.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.