Some illustrations of Braun's carbon prints : selected from our collection of over 100,000 plates
A 1904 New York sales booklet from Braun, Clément & Co. showing carbon prints made from paintings, meant to advertise their reproduction service to art buyers and dealers. The four plates are portraits of a woman in a dark hood, a seated woman in a pale dress, a man in a wide black hat with a white collar, and a young man in dark clothing with a white cuff; their soft tonal greys and oval vignettes show how photographic reproduction rendered old master paintings, a useful reference for designers working with sepia or monochrome portrait treatments.
