[Japanese Naval Officer][Studio Portrait: Japanese Man (Tateise Onogero) Standing Holding Hat and Sword]
1867
![[Japanese Naval Officer][Studio Portrait: Japanese Man (Tateise Onogero) Standing Holding Hat and Sword] by Felice Beato](https://images.artheonmuseum.org/met/ph/thumb/japanese-naval-officer-studio-portrait-japanese-764805.webp)
Medium
Albumen silver print with applied color
Dimensions
Image: 8.7 x 5.5 cm Mount: 10.5 x 6.2 cm
Classification
Photographs
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Fund, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 2017
Accession Number
2017.69.10
Tags
Art Historical Context
This intimate studio portrait, captured by pioneering photographer Felice Beato in 1867, depicts a man identified as Tateise Onogero—likely a naval officer—standing poised with hat in one hand and sword in the other. Beato, a British-Italian photographer renowned for his vivid documentation of Asia during turbulent times, arrived in Japan around 1863 amid the country's rapid shift from isolationism toward modernization in the late Edo period, just before the Meiji Restoration. Printed as a small albumen silver print8.7 x 5.5 cm image on a 10.5 x 6.2 cm mount) and enhanced with applied color, ...
About the Artist
Felice Beato
Felice Beato (c. 1832–1909), an Italian-born photographer who became a British subject through his family's residence on the British protectorate island of Corfu, emerged as one of the pioneering figures in war and travel photography. Born in Venice or Corfu to a Venetian noble family with roots in Corfu, Beato's early life remains somewhat obscure, but he acquired his first photographic lens in P...