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Japan
Japanese portraits

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Fotografie des 19. – 21. Jahrhunderts (Katalog nur online verfügbar)
Auktionsdatum 29.11.2025

Photographers: Baron Raimund Stillfried-Ratenicz (1839-1911), Felice Beato (1832-1909), Kusakabe Kimbei (1841-1932), and unknown. Japanese portraits. 1870s-90s. 28 hand-colored albumen prints, mounted to boards. Each circa 24 x 20 cm (36 x 28 cm). Some with number and title in lower corners in the negative.

Baron Raimund von Stillfried-Ratenicz, Felice Beato, and Kusakabe Kimbei were influential photographers who played key roles in documenting Japan during the late 19th century. Stillfried and Beato, both foreign photographers, captured the landscapes, architecture, and people of Japan, with Beato’s work being among the first visual records of the country for Western audiences. Kusakabe Kimbei, a Japanese photographer who trained under Stillfried and Beato, became known for his hand-colored images of traditional Japanese scenes, catering primarily to Western visitors during the Meiji period. This attractive group includes photographs of street sellers, monks, priests, geishas, wrestlers, tattooed men and craftsmen. The coloring is often exceptionally subtle and finely executed. – Several prints faded, particularly along the edges; some with light scuff marks, surface irregularities or minor spotting; otherwise most in good to very good condition.

Lit.: Claudia Gabriele Philippe, Dietmar Siegert, and Rainer Wick, eds. Felice Beato in Japan: Photographien zum Ende der Feudalzeit 1863-1873. Heidelberg: Edition Braus, 1991. Illustrated pp. 155, 160, 168, and 172.

Errata/Addenda:This lot has 44 albumen prints. Most are mounted on both sides of board.