Portrait of a Tattooed Man - Charles Eisenmann Framed Canvas
Description
Eisenmann’s Portrait of a Tattooed Man presses photography into dialogue with skin. The young man’s cropped hair, sidelong gaze, and folded arms frame an expanse of inked ornament: shields, beasts, figures, chain motifs, scrolls, each detail carved into flesh with surgical precision.
Sepia tonality roots the piece in cabinet card culture, where Bowery photographers fed a hunger for spectacle and strangeness. Yet this image exceeds its sideshow commerce. The tattoos create a labyrinth of symbols across muscle and torso, producing allure that unsettled Victorian boundaries of propriety, desire, and display.
Eisenmann’s lens preserves both the erotic charge and the archival weight of tattoo culture, capturing a performer who becomes mythic artifact, human stage, and enduring visual fascination.
About the Canvas
Make any room a showpiece
• Luscious artist-grade cotton canvas, finely textured for depth and precision.
• Hand-stretched and natural white to capture light/color with striking clarity.
• Printed with non-toxic, water-based pigments that stay vivid for decades.
• Precisely measured floating frame that creates a sleek, gallery-worthy effect.
• Sustainably sourced FSC® certified European knotless pine.
3 distinctive frame colors
Black: Suits every style from bold modernity to gothic opulence.
White: Helps art shine bright in dark rooms to lift your mood.
Natural: Infuses warmth with its rich, honeyed tones.
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Only the Best Will Do
Artist-grade cotton with lush, finely grained texture. Engineered to capture every intricate brushstroke and subtle gradient.
Giclée Printing
Forget 4 color CMYK. Giclée layers up to 12 — alive with deeper shadows, richer highlights and multidimensional contrasts.
A Century of Color
Printed using a pro-lab process that helps art stay bold & breathtaking for up to 100 yr with non-toxic, archival-grade inks.
