Object: | Studio portrait of Mihailo P. Jovanović |
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Description: | Full-length shot of a man wearing a police and judicial uniform with a cross of merit (Order of the Cross of Takovo of the third rank) around his neck. He is resting his right arm on a carved wooden table upon which a book and a cap have been placed. In his left hand he is holding a pair of folded white gloves, a sabre and a scabbard. A painted canvas backdrop is creating the impression of the scene being set in an elegant room. |
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Comment: | Mihailo P. Jovanović (1855, Kragujevac – 1944, Belgrade) was an attorney and served as Mayor of Belgrade (as shown in this photograph), Minister of Justice (1903–1905) and as head of the Court of Cassation in Belgrade (as of 1908). He was also the first representative of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia at the International Court in The Hague. |
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Relations: | /o:vase.1256 /o:vase.1257 | Date: | Not before 1896, Not after 1897 |
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Location: | Belgrade |
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Country: | Serbia |
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