Artist/photographer: Étienne Carjat (1828 - 1906), French journalist, caricaturist, and photographer.
Title: Photo portrait of Alexandre Dumas, a major nineteenth-century French writer.
Dimensions: Image: 9" × 7 3/8". Sheet: 13 3/8" × 9 7/8".
Publisher: Galerie Contemporaine Littéraire et Artistique, 1878. Vol. 3. Phot. Goupil & Cie.
Date: ca. 1862. (The Met).
Materials and Techniques: Woodburytype, mounted on typographic mat board.
Condition: Good. Minor loss to the upper edge of the emulsion.
Museums: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, accession no. 1992.5148.25.
Art Movements, Periods and Schools: French School XIX C.
Note: From the series Galerie Contemporaine Littéraire et Artistique, a major late nineteenth-century French publication documenting leading cultural figures through photographic portraiture, often reproduced as woodburytypes by Goupil & Cie.