[Studio Portrait of a Japanese Man in Western Clothing]
![[Studio Portrait of a Japanese Man in Western Clothing] by Raimund von Stillfried](https://images.artheonmuseum.org/met/ph/thumb/studio-portrait-of-a-japanese-man-in-western-287979.webp)
Medium
Albumen silver print with applied color
Dimensions
Image: 14.2 x 9.7 cm (5 9/16 x 3 13/16 in.) Mount: 16.6 x 10.9 cm (6 9/16 x 4 5/16 in.)
Classification
Photographs
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Sue Cassidy Clark, in honor of Dr. Barbara Brennen Ford, 2006
Accession Number
2006.525.1
Tags
About the Artist
Raimund von Stillfried · 1839–1911
Raimund von Stillfried (1839–1911) was an Austrian photographer who became one of the foremost Western practitioners of photography in Japan during the Meiji era. Born Baron Raimund von Stillfried-Ratenicz in Bohemia into an aristocratic family, he pursued a military career before discovering photography and making his way to East Asia in the early 1870s. He settled in Yokohama — then the principa...