[CARAMAN-CHIMAY Alphonse - portrait photograph]. [l. 60s of the 19th century]. Photograph form. 9,2x5,...

[CARAMAN-CHIMAY Alphonse - portrait photograph]. [l. 60s of the 19th century]. Photograph form. 9.2x5.5 cm on original backing form. 10.5x6 cm, by Walery Rzewuski in Kraków.
Portrayed person shown in bust, facing slightly to the right. Photo glued on original cardboard backing. On the back an advertising vignette of the atelier printed: "Photographic Establishment of Walery Rzewuski in Cracow Wesoła, Podwale Street, No. 27.B." and inscriptions in pencil and ink: "Alphonse [de Riquet] de Caraman-Chimay Prince de Chimay 1810-1865". Very good condition.
W. Rzewuski (1837-1888) - Cracow photographer, social activist, one of the pioneers of Polish photography. He studied at the Technical Institute in Cracow and from 1857-1858 at the Vienna Polytechnic. From 1859 he worked as a photographer, first outdoors, then in a studio in a rented room at 83 Grodzka St. In 1861 he opened an establishment at 6 Krupnicza St., then at 29 Kopernika St. Between 1864 and 1867 he put up a house at 27b Kolejowa St., where on November 1, 1867 he opened his renowned establishment with a modern laboratory atelier. Prominent citizen and councilor of the city of Cracow. Known for his ethnographic photography, landscapes of the Tatra Mountains, he created so-called "living pictures". Author of portraits, including insurgents of 1863 and the first album photos of actors.