[Seated Chinese Woman with Fan]
![[Seated Chinese Woman with Fan] by Raimund von Stillfried](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.artheonmuseum.org%2Fmet%2Fph%2Fthumb%2Fseated-chinese-woman-with-fan-288517.webp&w=3840&q=75)
Medium
Albumen silver print from glass negative with applied color
Dimensions
23.7 x 19.2 cm (9 5/16 x 7 9/16 in.)
Classification
Photographs
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005
Accession Number
2005.100.505.1 (23a)
Rights
Public Domain
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About the Artist
Raimund von Stillfried · 1839–1911
Raimund von Stillfried (1839–1911) was an Austrian photographer who became one of the foremost Western practitioners of photography in Japan during the Meiji era. Born Baron Raimund von Stillfried-Ratenicz in Bohemia into an aristocratic family, he pursued a military career before discovering photography and making his way to East Asia in the early 1870s. He settled in Yokohama — then the principa...