Auguste Vacquerie at a Window, Marine Terrace

c. 1853

Charles-Victor Hugo with Auguste Vacquerie

Associated Names
Auguste Vacquerie

Artist, French, 1819 - 1895

Charles-Victor Hugo

Artist, French, 1826 - 1871

The image shows the upper half of a person's body leaning out of a window. The person faces forward, looking outside. Their facial features are obscured due to the texture and lighting. The person appears to have light-colored hair and wears dark clothes. There is no visible jewelry, and they are not holding any object. The background is an exterior building wall with a window featuring shutters on both sides. Below the window is a section of the building's roof. The scene is in a vintage, sepia-toned style, giving it an aged appearance. The area around the person is textured, adding an artistic effect.

Media Options

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    salted paper print

  • Credit Line

    Robert B. Menschel Fund

  • Dimensions

    image: 9.2 × 7.7 cm (3 5/8 × 3 1/16 in.)
    mount: 25.1 × 18.5 cm (9 7/8 × 7 5/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1998.1.1


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Charles Isaacs Photographs, Malvern, PA); purchased with donated funds by NGA, 1998.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1999

  • Photographs from the Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1999.

2019

  • The Eye of the Sun: Nineteenth-Century Photographs from the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2019, unnumbered catalogue.

Inscriptions

on mount, lower center in graphite: Auguste Vacquerie a une fenetre du Marine-Terrace

Wikidata ID

Q64145819

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