Portrait of a Woman from Lisieux, Argentelle, 1846

Not on View

Medium

daguerreotype

Dimensions

image (visible): 10 × 7.5 cm (3 15/16 × 2 15/16 in.)
mat: 15 × 12.3 cm (5 7/8 × 4 13/16 in.)
overall: 15 × 12.3 × 0.2 cm (5 7/8 × 4 13/16 × 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund

Accession Number

2018.81.1

Artists / Makers

Baron Louis-Adolphe Humbert de Molard (artist) French, 1800 - 1874

Image Use

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Inscription

on verso, upper center printed in black ink on applied label: Louis-Adolphe, Baron Humbert de Molard / Paysanne en coiffe (2), septembre 1846, / Argentelle / Daguerréotype: 80 mm x 105 mm / 1/4 de plaque; by unknown hand, center in graphite: G77; bottom right: E/102/121

Provenance

Gerard Levy Collection, Paris; (Alex Novak, Chalfont, PA); NGA purchase, 2018.

Associated Names

Vintage Works, Ltd.