CAROL SZATHMARI (1812-1887) Portrait of General Aide-de-camp Paul de Kotzebue (1801-1884) signed, dated and located in graphite '1853 Bucharest' (lower right); framer's stamp in Cyrillic A. Gessel with the imperial supplier's mark 'A. Gessel... 30 November 1906' print on salted paper, mounted on card and fully enhanced with gouache and ink gilt frame made in the workshop of Anton Antonovich Gesel (a Frenchman, a merchant of the second guild, who arrived in Russia in the second half of the 19th century, lived and worked in Saint Petersburg. In 1893, he became a supplier to the Imperial Court) 26.5 x 20.5 cm Carol Szathmari was an Austro-Hungarian-born painter, lithographer and photographer. He is considered the world's first combat photographer as he took pictures in the battlefield, during the first year of the Crimean War (1853-1856). Count Paul Demetrius von Kotzebue (1801 -1884) was a general in the Imperial Russian Army, of German-Baltic origin, a combatant in the Crimean War and military governor of Warsaw.