# Portrait of a man in samurai armor

- By: Felice Beato (Venice, ca. –ca.)
- Date: c. 1863 - c. 1870
- Medium: paper
- Classification: photograph
- Dimensions: height 182 mm x width 140 mm
- Credit line: Gift of the Bauduin collection of M.A. van Munster van Heuven-Sprenger van Eyk, Warnsveld
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/RP-F-2016-76-1--497b0c15716cabf1e72f1ad752f0c10d)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://iiif.micr.io/Nnedj/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

Though many pictures of Japanese subjects were made for western buyers, most were not portraits of individuals with names and identities, but ‘types’ conforming to the stereotyped image many westerners had of Japan. In the Bauduin collection we find both types and true portraits, from samurai in full armour to Japanese men the brothers knew personally.