Portrait of a Girl Postmortem

c. 1850

American 19th Century

Attributed to

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    daguerreotype with applied color

  • Credit Line

    Alfred H. Moses and Fern M. Schad Fund

  • Dimensions

    image (visible): 5.8 × 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.)

  • Accession Number

    2017.36.1

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

Q64144797

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