Jacques-Phillipe Potteau (1807-1876) FRONTAL ETHNOGRAPHIC PORTRAIT OF ABD ALLAH BEN ABDI, Marshal of the Logis des Spahis, 1862, albumen print, image size, 180mm x 130mm,condition VG, dry mounted, inscription to verso of mount in pencil reads, Abd Allah Ben Abdi (91 years old) Sergeant in the country Interpreter for the Tuaregs in Paris. Born in Constantine of a Turkish father, and of a Kouloughli mother. Photograph taken in 1862. mount size 340mm x 287mmJacques-Phillipe Potteau was a member of the anthropology department at the Museum D'HistoireNaturellein Paris and succeeded Louis Rousseau as the department photographer. Between 1860 and 1869 he made a series of ethnographical portraits for the museum.