Colonel Juozapas Tiškevičius (1835–1891) of the Russian Imperial hussars — a brown-toned oval portrait, photographed by Aleksandras Vladislovas Štrausas around 1881–1885, when he was about fifty. The original is held at the Kretinga Museum (KM-IF6832); this copy (KM P 6702) was made in 1992 by photographer Antanas Lukšėnas.
This is now the fifth photograph of Count Juozapas in this exhibition — from the twenty-nine-year-old in Paris (exhibit No. 41), through the forty-one-year-old colonel in Vilnius in 1876 (exhibit No. 45) and the elaborate full-dress uniform (exhibit No. 43), to this portrait of a man in his mature years, with even more decorations on his chest. This is the same man whose family we see in exhibits No. 51 (as a young newlywed with Sofija), 41 (the whole family, after his death) and 48 (his son Aleksandras with his mother).
The animation here is restrained — no sudden movement: the features stir to life almost imperceptibly, while his gaze stays turned to the side, as though the count paused briefly in thought without breaking his pose for the photographer.