Three women and a girl
Object Details
- Local Numbers
- R138 (Rosin Number) FSA A1999.35 138
- General
- Title devised by Henry and Nancy Rosin.
- Photographer
- Beato, Felice, b. ca. 1825
- Collector
- Rosin, Henry D., Dr.
- Rosin, Nancy
- Names
- Beato, Felice, b. ca. 1825
- Collection Collector
- Rosin, Henry D., Dr.
- Collection Creator
- Lyman, Benjamin Smith, 1835-1920
- Ueno, Hikoma, 1838-1904
- Beato, Felice, b. ca. 1825
- Collection Collector
- Rosin, Nancy
- Collection Creator
- Stillfried, Raimund, Baron von, 1839-1911
- Underwood & Underwood
- Place
- Asia
- Japan
- Topic
- Photography -- Japan
- Photography -- 19th century
- Kimonos
- Fashion -- Japan
- Women -- Japan
- Girls -- Japan
- Portraits
- Photographer
- Beato, Felice, b. ca. 1825
- Collector
- Rosin, Henry D., Dr.
- Rosin, Nancy
- See more items in
- Henry and Nancy Rosin Collection of Early Photography of Japan
- Biographical / Historical
- Felice Beato was born in Venice around 1825. During his lifetime, he accompanied the British troops in India, recording images of the Indian Mutiny in 1857, and the Franco-British troops in China to cover the end of the Second Opium War in 1859. With his friend Charles Wirgman, Beato opened a photography studio in Yokohama, Japan in the early 1860s, and produced many images of the Japanese and their lifestyle, as interpreted by the Westerners. Selling his studio to Baron von Stillfried in 1877, Beato eventually died in Burma around 1908.
- Extent
- 1 Item (Photographic print : on mount 39.2 x 47.5 cm, hand coloring, image 22.5 x 19.5 cm.)
- Date
- Before 1877
- ca.1860-1877
- Container
- Box 20, Item R138
- Archival Repository
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
- Identifier
- FSA.A1999.35, Item FSA A1999.35 138
- Type
- Archival materials
- Photographs
- Photographs
- Photographic prints
- Collection Citation
- Henry and Nancy Rosin Collection of Early Photography of Japan. FSA.A1999.35. National Museum of Asian Art Archives. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
- Genre/Form
- Photographs
- Photographic prints
- Scope and Contents
- Three ornately dressed young women with powdered faces and dressed hair pose in an outdoor setting. A young girl dressed in rags stands to the right of the trio.
- According to Henry Rosin, this print demonstrates Beato's artistry as as a master of capturing social conflicts.
- This print is a pair with Baron von Stillfried's print of the same image, with the exception of the young ragged girl. (Rosin number 139) When von Stillfried purchased Beato's studio in 1877, he also purchased Beato's negatives, of which included "Three women and a girl." Since von Stillfried's studio was for commercial uses, he cropped out the young girl and cut the photo. Only very rarely can one find such clear evidence of the artistry of Beato and the commercialization of von Stillfried.
- Collection Restrictions
- Collection is open for research.
- Record ID
- ebl-1643210100175-1643210104545-0
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
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