French Family à la Japonais
SOLD October 2009 |
Extensively hand-colored cabinet-card format albumen print of a French family in Japanese clothing, the wife holding a Japanese style umbrella and her husband grasping a Japanese samurai-style sword. With photographer's imprint front "Ogawa, Bentendori, Yokohama" and inscribed in ink on reverse "Marie de Galembert / Japon Août 1900" ("Marie de Galembert / Japan August 1900").
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