Johannes Brahms. Cabinet-style photographic portrait signed in pencil on the reverse, nineteenth century
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Johannes Brahms
Cabinet-style photographic portrait of the composer, inscribed and signed in pencil ("...JBr") on the reverse, showing the clean-shaven composer
overall size 16.5 x 11.2cm, by Adèle of Vienna, photographer's imprint on verso ("Graben 19 u. Asperngasse 2"), with autograph inscription ("Mit schönstem Gruß u. besseres Versprechen!..."), [c.1876], light creasing affecting image and three corners
For a portrait photograph of Brahms in 1876 similarly attired, published by Luckhardt of Vienna, see Styra Avins, Johannes Brahms. Life and Letters (1997), plate 34. Adèle, who issued some photographs taken by Luckhardt, opened her Asperngasse gallery in 1876. Brahms grew his familiar beard two years later.
LITERATURE:
V. von Miller zu Aichholz, Ein Brahms-Bilderbuch...mit erläuterndem Text von Max Kalbeck (Vienna, 1905), p.23, no.2.
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