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Portrait of the Photographer’s Daughter Charlotte Asser
Also titled Portret van Charlotte Asser, dochter van de fotograaf
Eduard Isaac Asser (Amsterdam, 1809–1894)
c. 1842
- Medium
- copper (metal), glass
- Classification
- photograph
- Dimensions
- height 140 mm x width 130 mm x depth 24 mm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- 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
Born into a prosperous family of Amsterdam lawyers, Asser pursued not only a legal career, but was also an amateur painter and pioneering photographer. He portrayed his friends and family, including his second daughter, Charlotte. This is one of the earliest surviving Dutch photographs. It was made c. 1842, not long after Asser had begun to experiment with the medium.
