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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Antoin Sevruguin, A Persian woman, Late 19th Century, Early 20th Century
Antoin Sevruguin
A Persian woman, Late 19th Century, Early 20th Century
Offset print
72 mm x 108 mm
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Titled 'Femme persane dans la rue' on recto. An albumen print of the same image laid on paper with the title on recto 'Persane' is in the Nelson collection The...
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Titled "Femme persane dans la rue" on recto.

 

An albumen print of the same image laid on paper with the title on recto "Persane" is in the Nelson collection The number "143" appears on recto of the print in white ink as it does in the print of this image held in the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives (see below).

 

This image also appears in “Autour du monde, aquarelles, souvenirs de voyages XL, En Perse. Types, costumes et Moeurs” published by L Boulanger, Paris, c1890 and is titled “Persane en Costume de Ville” (CCCXVIII). The photogravure was printed by Charles Gillot (1853-1903), a Paris based innovative engraver and collector who incorporated the photographic discoveries of Daguerre and Niepce and ultimately perfected a process for reproducing book illustrations in colour.

 

 

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Frederick N. Bohrer, "Sevruguin and the Persian Image. Photographs of Iran, 1870-1930". Washington DC: Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, 1999.

 

An albumen photograph, captioned "Persian Woman", mounted in a leather-bound album, that is part of the C.R. Smith archive at the V&A is attributed to Antoin Sevruguin.

 

Another albumen print is also contained in the Myron Bement Smith collection, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. (Gift of Katherine Dennis Smith, 1973-1985). This photograph is also attributed to Antoin Sevruguin and a handwritten number (inked, probably by Antoin Sevruguin) also reads, "143."

 

 

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