Zelfportret van Maurits Verveer
Maurits Verveer
1861 - 1863
Medium
albumen print
Dimensions
95; 62; 108; 60
About this artwork
albuminedruk
Art Historical Context
This self-portrait by Maurits Verveer, created between 1861 and 1863, offers a quiet window into the early days of photography as both craft and personal expression. The modest albumen print, measuring just 95 by 60 millimeters, presents the Dutch photographer as both subject and maker, capturing his likeness with the precision that defined the medium’s rise in the mid-nineteenth century. Albumen printing, known in Dutch as “albuminedruk,” was the leading photographic process of its time. It used egg-white emulsion to bind light-sensitive silver salts to paper, yielding fine detail and a soft...