[Peru]. [Women]

[Carte-de-Visite of a Young Peruvian Woman in Traditional Dress]

Lima: Fotografia Central Courret Hermanos, [ca. 1880]. Carte-de-visite photo, 4.25 x 2.75 inches. Minor soiling, pencil notation at foot of card. Very good. Item #5806

Handsome image of a young Peruvian woman in traditional dress. Pictured in three-quarter length, she holds a wide straw hat, a printed skirt peeking out of the bottom of the photos beneath a traditional shawl wrapped around her shoulders. Her hair is in two braids, and she wears elaborate earrings. The pencil notation at the bottom reads, "Native of Peru." The photographer, Eugene Courret, was a French native who moved to Lima in 1860 to work in a photography studio; he opened his own studio with his brother in 1863, and returned to France in the 1890s.

Price: $650.00