Elfenbein-Arbeiten drei Figuren, darunter eine Venus, aus den Jahren 1600-1650, Folio aus den Sammlungen des Bayrischen National-Museums, Blatt No. 92

Ivory Works Three Figures, Amongst Them a Venus from 1600-1650, Folio from the Collection of the Bavarian National Museum, Sheet No. 92, 1864/65

ArtistFranz Hanfstaengl, Dietramszell 1804–1877 München

MediumAlbumen print

State/print version printed ca. 1864/65

Image dimensions19 x 26,7 cm

Status

not on display

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 acquired as a gift from Kicken Berlin in memory of Rudolf Kicken

Inventory numberF.2019.342

Contact

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