Portrait of a Woman and Two Girls

1850s

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    ambrotype with applied color

  • Credit Line

    Robert B. Menschel and the Vital Projects Fund

  • Dimensions

    image (visible): 8.89 × 6.35 cm (3 1/2 × 2 1/2 in.)
    mat: 10.8 × 8.26 cm (4 1/4 × 3 1/4 in.)
    case (closed): 9.37 × 11.75 × 1.91 cm (3 11/16 × 4 5/8 × 3/4 in.)

  • Accession

    2008.79.3

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Charles Schwartz Ltd., New York); NGA purchase, 2008.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2009

  • In the Darkroom: Photographic Processes Before the Digital Age, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2009 - 2010, unnumbered catalogue.

2019

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

Wikidata ID

Q64144600

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