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Jean-Baptiste Émile Colliau — Portrait of the Actor Pierre Bocage and Friend

Jean-Baptiste Émile Colliau

Portrait of the Actor Pierre Bocage and Friend

1860

Early photographic portraiture captures the theatrical world of mid-19th-century Paris, utilizing the wet collodion process that produced sharp detail and rich tonal range in albumen prints.

Medium
albumen print from wet collodion negative

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Jean-Baptiste Émile Colliau, Portrait of the Actor Pierre Bocage and Friend, 1860

Early photographic portraiture captures the theatrical world of mid-19th-century Paris, utilizing the wet collodion process that produced sharp detail and rich tonal range in albumen prints.

Medium
albumen print from wet collodion negative
Year
1860
Seen at
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Related themes

Nineteenth Century, Monochrome, French, Albumen Print, Figure, Photograph, Historical, Two Figures, Portrait, Formal

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Cleveland Museum of Art