Portrait of a Man and His Dog (c. 1880): Art, History and Details

Portrait of a Man and His Dog (c. 1880) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Pascal Sébah (Turkish, 1823–1886).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

Born in Constantinople to a Syrian father and Armenian mother, Sébah opened a photography studio there in either the late 1850s or ’60s. This carte de visite, a small, inexpensive photographic format developed in France and meant to be left as a calling card or collected, attests to the rapid and potent global spread of photographic technology, formats, and conventions in the mid-1800s.

Object facts

• Title: Portrait of a Man and His Dog
• Date: c. 1880
• Creator attribution: Pascal Sébah (Turkish, 1823–1886)
• Culture: Turkey
• Type: Photograph
• Technique: carte-de-visite, albumen print
• Dimensions: Image: 9.4 x 5.8 cm (3 11/16 x 2 5/16 in.); Paper: 10.2 x 6.3 cm (4 x 2 1/2 in.)
• Collection: Photography
• Department: Photography
• Accession number: 2017.28

Collection credit

Collection of Herbert Ascherman Jr.

View the collection record

See the museum's photographs and full catalogue entry. Catalogue text is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art's open-access data, with HTML formatting removed. This object and its supplied image are designated CC0.