Cup and Chandelier out of Ivory from 1680-1700, Folio from the Collection of the Bavarian National Museum, Sheet No. 140, 1864/1865
Albumen print
Image dimensions18,7 × 26,2 cm
About the workYou can see some things better in a photograph than directly in front of the object itself. Long before photography was recognised as museum-worthy in its own right, it was used as a technical tool for cataloguing objects in museum collections. One of the most successful companies specialising in artistic reproductions in Europe was run by Franz Hanfstaengl in Munich. In the 1860s, one of his tasks was photographing the collection of the Bavarian National Museum. The resulting images bear witness to the aesthetic value that reproduction photography is capable of achieving.
AccessionGift 2019
Provenance[...]; 2019 erworben durch Schenkung von Galerie Kicken, Berlin
Inventory numberF.2019.341
