Art Object Page

Portrait of a Girl Postmortem, c. 1850

Not on View

Medium

daguerreotype with applied color

Dimensions

image (visible): 5.8 × 8.3 cm (2 5/16 × 3 1/4 in.)
mat: 8.2 × 10.7 cm (3 1/4 × 4 3/16 in.)
case (closed): 11.8 × 9.5 × 2 cm (4 5/8 × 3 3/4 × 13/16 in.)

Credit Line

Alfred H. Moses and Fern M. Schad Fund

Accession Number

2017.36.1

Artists / Makers

American 19th Century (artist)

Image Use

This image is unavailable for download.
Read our full Open Access policy for images.
Contact us about image usage.

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Kraus, Inc., H.P.

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.

Portrait of a Girl Postmortem, c. 1850

Provenance

Associated Names

Exhibition History

Related Content