Portrait of a Girl Postmortem

c. 1850

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    daguerreotype with applied color

  • Credit Line

    Alfred H. Moses and Fern M. Schad Fund

  • Dimensions

    image (visible): 5.4 × 6.7 cm (2 1/8 × 2 5/8 in.)
    mat: 7 × 8.2 cm (2 3/4 × 3 1/4 in.)
    case (closed): 9.2 × 8.2 × 1.3 cm (3 5/8 × 3 1/4 × 1/2 in.)

  • Accession

    2017.36.2

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Richard Hart; (Hans P. Kraus, Jr., New York); NGA purchase, 2017.

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.

Wikidata ID

Q64144798

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