Man in Chainmail Tunic Posing as a Dying Soldier. Artist: Adrien Constant de Rebecque (Swiss, Lausanne 1806-1876 Lausanne). Dimensions: Image: 17.9 x 24.2 cm (7 1/16 x 9 1/2 in.)Mount: 27.2 x 37 cm (10 11/16 x 14 9/16 in.). Date: ca. 1863.The early Swiss photographer Constant Delessert was likely introduced to the medium by his wife's Parisian cousins Édouard and Benjamin Delessert. Although Constant was known through exhibition records, his membership in the Société Française de Photographie, and his writings on photographic processes, his work was unfamiliar until recently, when a series of his albums appeared at auction, filled primarily with standard portraits of family members and others, city and landscape views, and a few genre scenes.This unusual photograph, however, stands apart from his more typical work. Undoubtedly made as a study for a painting, it shows a man dressed in a chainmail tunic, striking the classic pose of a dying warrior. By the early 1860s photography ha