Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00013063Untitled (Portrait of a Man)
About the Artwork
Celebrated Parisian portrait photographer Etienne Carjat established his reputation through celebrity portraiture but his mainstay was images of middle- and upper-class sitters like this couple, presumably husband and wife. Seeking images more permanent than those made on paper, they paid extra to have their portraits vitrified on enamel. The process yields exquisitely detailed, durable images that appear as fresh as the day they were delivered to the sitters’ hands.
Inscriptions
Written in brown ink on verso: “Procedé/Gougenheim et Fores…[illegible handwriting]/Médaille d’Or/Carjat/Paris/1879
Exhibition history
France in the Time of Manet and Morisot. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 10-August 23, 2026).
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Etienne Carjat (French, 1828–1906)
- Date
- 1879
- Medium
- Photograph on enamel in copper alloy frame with velvet liner
- Dimensions
- Overall: 7.7 x 6.2 cm (3 1/16 x 2 7/16 in.)
- Type
- Photograph
- Classification
- Photograph
- Department
- Photography
- Credit line
- John Cook Memorial Fund
- Accession no.
- 2017.8.1
More by Étienne Carjat in museum collections
Open-access museum record · AT-00013063
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