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Japan
Japanese portraits

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Fotografie des 19. – 21. Jahrhunderts (Katalog nur online verfügbar)
Auktionsdatum 4.12.2024

Photographer: Baron Raimund Stillfried-Ratenicz (1839-1911), Felice Beato (1832-1909) and unknown. Japanese portraits. 1870s-90s. 22 hand-colored albumen prints. Each circa 24 x 20 cm and reverse. Some with number and title in lower corners in the negative, most mounted to board and mounted in mats.

This attractive group includes portraits of farmers, teachers, Kendo fighters, geishas and musicians. – Several faded, especially in edges, some with light scuff/handling marks, some with light spots, otherwise most in good condition.

Lit.: Luke Gartlan. A Career of Japan. Baron Raimund von Stillfried and Early Yokohama Photography. Leiden/Boston 2016, ill. p. 201.
Claudia Gabriele Philippe/Dietmar Siegert/ Rainer Wick (eds.). Felice Beato in Japan. Photographien zum Ende der Feudalzeit 1863-1873. Heidelberg 1991, ill. p. 151, 168 and 170.