Portrait of Ahmed Ben Yelloub
Artist
Philippe Potteau
(French, 1807 - 1876)
Date1865
MediumAlbumen print
DimensionsImage and sheet: 6 13/16 × 5 1/16 inches (17.32 × 12.85 cm)
Mount: 14 3/4 × 11 1/8 inches (37.47 × 28.27 cm)
Mount: 14 3/4 × 11 1/8 inches (37.47 × 28.27 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation
Object number2020.7.83
Signednone
InscribedOn mount recto, bottom center, in black pen: "Ahmed ben Yelloub (34 ans) Caporal au 2éme / Tirailleurs Algériens Né á Oran. Taille 1 métre / 60 centimetres, cheveux noirs, yeux bleus; fils / de pére turc et de mére Arabe / Phot. en 1865"
Translation: Ahmed ben Yelloub (34 years old) Corporal in the 2nd [regiment] of Algerian riflemen. Born in Oran. One meter, 60 centimeters tall, black hair, blue eyes; son of a Turkish father and Arab mother; Phot[ographed] in 1865.
MarkingsOn mount verso, upper left, in pencil: "TxB- / B [circled]"
On View
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Terms
Hall Family Foundation, Kansas CIty, MO, 2020;
Given by the Hall Family Foundation to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2020.
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Jean-Pierre Philippe Lampué
1865
2020.11.3.1,2
