Portrait of a Girl

c. 1853

M. et Mme. Barberon

Artist, French, active 1850s

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    daguerreotype with applied color

  • Credit Line

    Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund

  • Dimensions

    image: 9.5 × 7.3 cm (3 3/4 × 2 7/8 in.)
    mat: 15.2 × 13 cm (6 × 5 1/8 in.)
    framed: 21.6 × 19.3 × 0.6 cm (8 1/2 × 7 5/8 × 1/4 in.)

  • Accession

    2024.69.2

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Marie Lagaron, Avignon, France); (Christopher Wahren Fine Photographs, New Haven, CT), September 2023; NGA purchase, 2024.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

on verso, center printed in black ink on applied label: PORTRAITS AU DAGUERREOTYPE / PAR Mr & Mme BARBERON, / Rue St François, 9 / Pres L'Eglise St Michel / Bordeaux; on bottom edge, by unknown hand, bottom right in black ink: IE-755B

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