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Our Chief Artist
Felice Beato1868
The J. Paul Getty Museum
Los Angeles, United States
This portrait depicts the chief artist in charge of hand coloring the photographs in Beato's studio. Its original caption touts the "singular excellence of the Japanese in the art of coloring small pictures, a work that well accords with a character for patience in details."
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Details
- Title: Our Chief Artist
- Creator: Felice Beato
- Date Created: 1868
- Location Created: Yokohama, Japan
- Physical Dimensions: 22 × 17 cm (8 11/16 × 6 11/16 in.)
- Type: Print
- External Link: Find out more about this object on the Museum website.
- Medium: Hand-colored albumen silver print
- Terms of Use: Open Content
- Number: 2007.26.182
- Culture: English
- Credit Line: The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Partial gift from the Wilson Centre for Photography
- Creator Display Name: Felice Beato (English, born Italy, 1832 - 1909)
- Classification: Photographs (Visual Works)
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