Untitled (studio portrait of mother and child)

Untitled (studio portrait of mother and child)

by Abdullah Freres (Studio)

1860s

vintage

albumen photograph on card

9x5.5cm image/sheet; 10.5x6.3cm card

not editioned

Permanent loan. Vigen Galstyan collection, purchased 2015

An early, haunting portrait of a mother and child by the Abdullah Freres studio. In its intensity and depth of psychological \'incision\' it recalls early daguerreotype portraits. It is also valuable for being most probably taken by one of the three Abdullah brothers instead of by one of their assistant photographers.