[Woman with Tea Set Playing the Koto]

Felice Beato

ca. 1860

[Woman with Tea Set Playing the Koto] by Felice Beato

Medium

Albumen silver print from glass negative with applied color

Dimensions

Image: 20.8 x 26.2 cm (8 3/16 x 10 5/16 in.) Mount: 34.3 x 48.3 cm (13 1/2 x 19 in.)

Classification

Photographs

Department

Photographs

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Gift of Isaac Lagnado, in honor of Paula J. Giardina, 2009

Accession Number

2009.538.1

Tags

Musical InstrumentsWomenPortraitsTea

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...

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