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Unknown maker — Untitled (Portrait of a Man Painting)

Unknown maker

Untitled (Portrait of a Man Painting)

1865

Meta-artistic in nature, this ambrotype documents a painter at work, creating a fascinating dialogue between two different artistic mediums of the 1860s.

Medium
Ambrotype

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Unknown maker, Untitled (Portrait of a Man Painting), 1865

Meta-artistic in nature, this ambrotype documents a painter at work, creating a fascinating dialogue between two different artistic mediums of the 1860s.

Medium
Ambrotype
Year
1865
Seen at
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

Related themes

Nineteenth Century, Vintage, Monochrome, Ambrotype, Documentary, Photograph, Historical, Man, Portrait, Figurative

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