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Femmes musulmanes Syriennes à Beyrouth, Costume de Ville (Two Women)
The Cleveland Museum of Art

Femmes musulmanes Syriennes à Beyrouth, Costume de Ville (Two Women)

Description

To make a photochrom, a photographic negative was transferred onto a lithographic stone, then printers created a minimum of six and up to fifteen different stones, each with a single color of ink, which were printed atop the black-and-white image. The printers creating the colors had never seen the original locale. Photochroms were popular from the 1890s into the 1910s and were most often collected in albums or framed and hung on the wall.

Provenance

William S. and Margaret Lipscomb, Shaker Heights, OH, given to The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH; The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Dimensions

22.4 × 16.3 cm

Movement / Period

Photography

Accession No

2021.208.b

Curatorial Affinity Stream

Continuing the Universe of Félix Bonfils (French, 1831–1885)

Photography • France • Harmonious Works & Contemporaries