Portrait of a Mother and Four Children

1850s

American 19th Century

Associated Names
The image shows a group portrait of five individuals - a woman and four children. The woman is seated in the center holding a small child on her lap. The woman has her hair styled back and wears a dark dress with gloves. The child on her lap wears a bright garment with a lace collar. To the woman's left are two young girls with shoulder-length hair. They wear white blouses with lace collars over dark skirts. To the woman's right stands a young boy in a dark suit with a high collar. The background is a plain gradient, transitioning from dark at the bottom to lighter shades at the top.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    salted paper print with applied color

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon

  • Dimensions

    image/sheet: 19.1 × 23.6 cm (7 1/2 × 9 5/16 in.)
    mount: 24.8 × 29.9 cm (9 3/4 × 11 3/4 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2018.177.211


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

by unknown hand, lower center in graphite: Keep [illegible] our art [?] paper; on verso, by unknown hand, center in graphite: 68709 / CR


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