Georgina, morte à 20 ans (Georgina, dead at age 20)

c. 1852

Attributed to Hippolyte Bayard

Associated Names
Hippolyte Bayard

Artist, French, 1801 - 1887

The image shows a woman standing in a poised position. Her head is turned slightly to her left, looking at the camera. She has a center part hairstyle reaching above her shoulders. She is wearing a gown with pleated bodice, lace cuffs, and collar. In her left hand, she holds a closed book, and her right hand rests on a draped chair. She wears a bracelet on her right wrist. The background is plain.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    salted paper print

  • Credit Line

    Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund

  • Dimensions

    image: 24.3 × 18.3 cm (9 9/16 × 7 3/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2018.83.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(sale, public auction, Paris, 2016); (Jean-Claude Martinez, Paris), 2016; (Denis Canguilhem, Paris), 2017; 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.

Inscriptions

by unknown hand, on mount below image in graphite: Georgina morte à 20 ans

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