[TCHAIKOVSKY] LORENS, Alfred (1830-1896)

[TCHAIKOVSKY] LORENS, Alfred (1830-1896)

Original photography by Alfred Lorens, S. Petersbourg
Period albumen print [c. 1874], Carte-de-visite format (10,4 x 6,4 cm)
Glued on cardboard in the photographer’s name. Golden line on edge.
Lower margin very slightly cropped, some spots and flaws (see scan)

Scarce and superb portrait of the thirty-three-year-old musician

Dressed in a double-breasted frock coat, the musician appears in a seated and relaxed position, arms crossed and his gaze serene.
It was in this same year that Tchaikovsky composed his first piano concerto in B flat minor, which earned him a bad review from Nikolai Rubinstein.

On the verso:
Period annotation on the back “Tchaikovsky” by an unknown hand
Photography workshop. Alfred Lorens – St. Petersburg
Nevsky Avenue, Bossé House, No. 5

Russian photographer Alfred Lorens is known for his portraits. Is also known for his photographs of the city of St. Petersburg, which are now partly preserved in the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles.