This image appears in colour in “Autour du monde, aquarelles, souvenirs de voyages XL, En Perse. Types, costumes et Moeurs” published by L Boulanger, Paris, c1890 and is titled “Persane en costume de ville” (CCCXVIII). The photogravure is from a set of eight Persian images by Antoin Sevruguin and was printed by Charles Gillot (1853-1903), a Paris based engraver and art collector who incorporated the photographic discoveries of Daguerre and Niepce into his engraving techniques and ultimately perfected a process for reproducing book illustrations in colour. The image has the number “143” in white ink on recto in the same location as the albumen print in the Nelson collection.
An offset print of the image is also in the Nelson collection and is titled "Femme Persane dans la rue" on recto.
Literature
Russell Harris and Isabel Miller, "The Sevruguin Photographs", Asian Art (February 2011) 6-7.
Melanie Venes and Jennifer Wearden, "A Persian Venture", Hali 148 (2006) 60-61.
Frederick N. Bohrer, "Sevruguin and the Persian Image. Photographs of Iran, 1870-1930". Washington DC: Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, 1999.
Publications
An albumen photograph, captioned "Persian Woman", mounted in a leather-bound album, that is part of the C.R. Smith archive at the V&A is attributed to Antoin Sevruguin.
An albumen print is also contained in the Myron Bement Smith collection located in the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. (Gift of Katherine Dennis Smith, 1973-1985). This print has a handwritten number on recto that also reads, "143."