Albin Mutterer was well-known in Vienna for his portrait photographs of the wealthy society as well as his portraits of deceased persons. Mutterer took portraits of the dead not only if they would appear to be asleep, but apparently if they would be alive with the eyes wide open and propped before the camera. The Albertina also owns a salt-print photograph of the editor Reitmayer which was made in 1864 and which is considered today as one of the most astonishing portraits of a deceased. However, there are conspiciously similarities between the salt print and this daguerreotype. My research on Mutterer's techniques show that the portrait of 1864 is actually a copy of the daguerreotype. I wrote a paper on this topic which I would like to share with Daguerreobase. My research paper can be downloaded here: https://www.essex.ac.uk/arthistory/research/pdfs/rebus-issue-7/munforte.pdf

Albin Mutterer was well-known in Vienna for his portrait photographs of the wealthy society as well as his portraits of deceased persons. Mutterer took portraits of the dead not only if they would appear to be asleep, but apparently if they would be alive with the eyes wide open and propped before the camera. The Albertina also owns a salt-print photograph of the editor Reitmayer which was made in 1864 and which is considered today as one of the most astonishing portraits of a deceased. However, there are conspiciously similarities between the salt print and this daguerreotype. My research on Mutterer's techniques show that the portrait of 1864 is actually a copy of the daguerreotype. I wrote a paper on this topic which I would like to share with Daguerreobase. My research paper can be downloaded here: https://www.essex.ac.uk/arthistory/research/pdfs/rebus-issue-7/munforte.pdf