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Crystoleum, Portrait of a bourgeois man sitting with a book in his hands.
Period frame in wood and gilded stucco.
A crystal print is a hand-painted photograph fixed under glass. An albumen print is glued onto a concave piece of glass, the paper backing is then rubbed away, and the remaining image is hand-colored with oil paints. This extremely expensive process was used for a short period from 1880 to 1910.
Crystoleum, "Portrait of a Man," painted photograph fixed under glass, 1890
Crystoleum, Portrait of a bourgeois man sitting with a book in his hands.
Period frame in wood and gilded stucco.
A crystal print is a hand-painted photograph fixed under glass. An albumen print is glued onto a concave piece of glass, the paper backing is then rubbed away, and the remaining image is hand-colored with oil paints. This extremely expensive process was used for a short period from 1880 to 1910.