Portrait of a Woman

c. 1850

Antoine Claudet

Associated Names
Antoine Claudet

Artist, French, 1797 - 1867

The image depicts a woman sitting on a red sofa. She has a straight face and is holding a fan on her lap. She has brown hair styled in an updo and wears a blue dress with white lace details. The background has brown tones and red drapery.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    stereoscopic daguerreotypes with applied color

  • Credit Line

    Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund

  • Dimensions

    image (each): 6.7 × 5.8 cm (2 5/8 × 2 5/16 in.)
    overall: 8.3 × 17.4 × 0.3 cm (3 1/4 × 6 7/8 × 1/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2015.180.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Greg French, Jamaica Plain, MA), 2010; NGA purchase, 2015.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

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 verso, studio stamp, centered in brown ink: Under The Patronage of Her Majesty. / By Royal Letters Patent. / Mr. Antoine Claudet, / 107, Regent Street, / (Quadrant, Near Vigo Street.) / Daguerreotype Miniatures. / Plain and Coloured Stereoscopic Daguerreotype Portraits.

Wikidata ID

Q64144960

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