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Désiré Charnay

Femme Malgache et Ses Enfants (Madagascan Woman and Her Children) (Plate 3), 1863

Not on View

Medium

albumen print

Dimensions

image: 21 x 17.6 cm (8 1/4 x 6 15/16 in.)

sheet: 42.6 x 29.9 cm (16 3/4 x 11 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon

Accession Number

2006.131.3

Artists / Makers

Désiré Charnay (artist) French, 1828 - 1915

Image Use

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Inscription

Across center under image in ink: Femme Malgache et Ses Enfants.; vertical along right edge at center in graphite: 3.

Provenance

Mary and Dan Solomon; purchase and gift to NGA, 2006.

Associated Names

Solomon, Dan and Mary

Exhibition History

2015: In Light of the Past: Celebrating Twenty-Five Years of Collecting Photographs at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, May 3 – July 26, 2015

Bibliography

1993: Hambourg, Maria Morris. The Waking Dream: Photography's First Century. Selections from the Gilman Paper Company Collection. Exh. cat. Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1993.

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