Portrait of a Woman

c. 1855

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    daguerreotype with applied color

  • Credit Line

    Patrons' Permanent Fund

  • Dimensions

    image (visible): 9.2 × 13 cm (3 5/8 × 5 1/8 in.)
    mat: 15.7 × 20.7 cm (6 3/16 × 8 1/8 in.)
    overall: 16.6 × 21.7 × 0.5 cm (6 9/16 × 8 9/16 × 3/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2018.145.17

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Marc Pagneux, Paris; (Charles Isaacs Photographs, Inc., New York), 1993; NGA purchase, 2018.

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.

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