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A Holbein woman – Vintage Wall Art

A Holbein woman, [ca. 1890] — historic photograph
A Holbein woman, [ca. 1890]. Historic photograph from the Family Life collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Titled "A Holbein woman," this small albumen print borrows the look of Hans Holbein the Younger, the German Renaissance painter whose sober, watchful portraits of sixteenth-century sitters set the standard for dark dress, plain backgrounds, and frontal poses. Around 1890, photographers often staged costumed sitters like this one to show that the camera could match the authority of painting. Frances Benjamin Johnston, a Washington photographer who later became known for her documentary work, collected prints of this kind, and the image preserves the period's taste for pictorial portraiture.

Created / published[ca. 1890]
Medium1 photographic print : albumen ; 12 x 10 cm. mounted on light gray board, 28 x 23 cm.
GenrePortrait photographs 1890.Albumen prints 1890.
NotesPublished title. Forms part of: Artistic photographs collected by Frances Benjamin Johnston in the Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection. DLC Gift; Frances Benjamin Johnston; 1948. DLC Published in: Ambassadors of progress / edited by Bronwyn A.E. Griffith ... France : Musée d'Art Américain Giverny ... 2001, p. 140.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,001 × 5,000 px · prints to 13 × 17 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-222406

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