Inocencia Serrano y Cerver, Marquise of Cerralbo, and Amelia del Valle y Serrano, in Oriental garment
Inocencia Serrano y Cerver, marquesa de Cerralbo, y Amelia del Valle y Serrano, con atuendo oriental
Madrid, Spain
Cerralbo Museum
Museo Cerralbo
1889
Abdullah Frères' studio
MCVH0702
Paper; albumen print
13,7 x 21,3 cm
Turkey, Istanbul
The Marquis of Cerralbo and his family visited Istanbul in 1889, and nowadays the Cerralbo Museum holds an interesting variety of pieces bought and collected as souvenirs from the family trip. When visiting a foreign country or city, being portraited by a famous photographer of studio was indispensable. In this case the photographers are the world-renowned Armenian Abdullah Frères, Photographes de S. M. I. le Sultan. This albumen portrait of Inocencia Serrano y Cerver, Marquise of Cerralbo, and her daughter Amelia del Valle y Serrano is delicious thanks to the typical Turkish costume, the apparently easy pose and the scenography and the absolute harmony with the idea of aesthetic orientalism.
Cecilia Casas Desantes "Inocencia Serrano y Cerver, Marquise of Cerralbo, and Amelia del Valle y Serrano, in Oriental garment" in "Sharing History", Museum With No Frontiers, 2024. https://sharinghistory.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;AWE;es;84;en;N
Prepared by: Cecilia Casas Desantes
Copyedited by: Anne Dowell
MWNF Working Number: SP 084
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