Artist/Photographer: Étienne Carjat (1828–1906), French journalist, caricaturist, and photographer.
Title: Portrait of Gioachino Rossini, a nineteenth-century Italian composer.
Dimensions: Image: 9 3/8" × 7 6/8". Sheet: 14" × 10 2/8".
Publisher: Galerie Contemporaine Littéraire et Artistique, 1876. Vol. 3. Paris: Goupil & Cie.
Date: Circa 1862 (The Metropolitan Museum of Art).
Materials and Techniques: Woodburytype, mounted on typographic mat board.
Condition: Good. Minor corner trimming; light surface wear consistent with age.
Museums:
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, accession no. 1992.5148.56.
Art Movements, Periods and Schools: French School XIX C.
Notes:
- 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.
- As noted by the National Gallery of Art, “In the best portraits, for example, those of Charles Baudelaire and Gioachino Rossini, the dramatic posture and expression alone convey the portraitist's interpretation.”