[Studio Portrait: Male Street Vendor Standing in Profile Holding Basket, Brazil]
![[Studio Portrait: Male Street Vendor Standing in Profile Holding Basket, Brazil] by Georges Leuzinger|Christiano Junior](https://images.artheonmuseum.org/met/ph/thumb/studio-portrait-male-street-vendor-standing-in-764810.webp)
Medium
Albumen silver print
Dimensions
Image: 9.0 x 5.4 cm Mount: 10.2 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
2017.69.15
Tags
Art Historical Context
In the mid-1860s, Swiss-Brazilian photographer Georges Leinger and Portuguese-Brazilian Christiano Junior captured the everyday vibrancy of Rio de Janeiro life in this intimate studio portrait. Titled *Studio Portrait: Male Street Standing in Profile Holding Basket Brazil* (1864–66), it features a poised male vendor in profile, clutching a woven basket—likely filled with goods from the bustling streets. Produced as a petite albumen silver print (.0 x 5.4 cm image on a 10.2 x 6.2 cm mount), it exemplifies the carte-de-visite format, a photographic "calling card" sensation that made portraiture ...
About the Artist
Georges Leuzinger|Christiano Junior (Brazilian| ) · 1813 | –1892 |
Brazilian, 1813–1892|