Untitled (Portrait of Wild Animal Tamer Jacob Driesbach with Jaguar)

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Artist: William Langenheim (American, born Germany,1807-1874) and / Frederick Langenheim (American, born Germany, 1809-1879)
Date: 1850
Medium: Daguerreotype
Dimensions: 10.8 × 14 cm (4 5/16 × 5 9/16 in.); Open case: 15.4 × 24.3 × 1 cm (6 1/8 × 9 5/8 × 7/16 in.); Case: 15.4 × 12.3 × 1.7 cm (6 1/8 × 4 7/8 × 11/16 in.); Plate: 10.8 × 14 cm (4 1/4 × 5 1/2 in.)
Type: Photograph
Classification: portrait
Style: 19th century
Place: United States
Department: Photography and Media
Credit line: The W. Bruce and Delaney H. Lundberg Collection, purchased with funds provided by The Leonian Charitable Trust
Accession no.: 2019.225

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Untitled (Portrait of a Woman and Child)
William Langenheim
1848 · Photograph
Museum collection · via the Art Institute of ChicagoAT-00009058

Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.