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Celebrating American art and artists
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Artists Reimagining the Collection
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Position réputée la plus commode pour un portrait au daguerréotype

July 24, 1847

Honoré Daumier

Associated Names

Honoré Daumier

Artist, French, 1808 - 1879

The image shows two individuals engaged in a photography session. One person is seated in a suit on a chair next to a small potted plant. The other person is bending forward, looking through the viewfinder of a camera on a tripod, covered with a dark cloth.

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Artwork overview

Medium

lithograph
Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Gift of Dr. Armand Hammer)
Accession Number

2015.143.381
Catalogue Raisonné

Delteil, no. 1525, State iii/iii

Artwork history & notes

Wikidata ID

Q77014265

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