Sulisse Family

1847

French 19th Century

Associated Names
French 19th Century

Artist

The image shows a framed photograph of three people from the waist up. There is a woman on the left, a child in the middle, and a man on the right. The woman wears a patterned shawl and a white bonnet, with a neutral expression. The child wears a dark collared outfit and places one hand on the man's chest. The man wears a suit with a bow tie and has neatly combed dark hair. They are against a backdrop with an ornate foliage pattern, and the photograph is in a wooden frame against a dark matte background.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    daguerreotype with applied color

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Charles Isaacs and Carol Nigro Ph.D

  • Dimensions

    image (visible): 7.3 × 9.8 cm (2 7/8 × 3 7/8 in.)
    mat: 14.4 × 17.2 cm (5 11/16 × 6 3/4 in.)
    framed: 22.2 × 25.1 × 1.6 cm (8 3/4 × 9 7/8 × 5/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2018.23.33

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Ken Appollo, New York); Charles Isaacs and Carol Nigro Collection, New York, 1992; gift to NGA, 2018.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

on verso, by unknown hand, upper right in graphite: H1013; lower left in graphite on applied label: H1013

Wikidata ID

Q64144809

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