Portrait of a Woman

c. 1853

M. et Mme. Barberon

Associated Names
M. et Mme. Barberon

Artist, French, active 1850s

The image shows a woman with a composed expression seated and slightly turned to her left, looking at the viewer. She has dark eyes, wears a cap partially covering her hair, pulled back neatly. The woman is dressed in a dark, long-sleeved gown with a white lace collar and cuffs, and a long chain necklace. She rests one arm on an ornate or upholstered armrest and has her other hand on her lap. The backdrop is neutral, and the portrait is housed in a dark, elaborately carved frame.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    daguerreotype with applied color

  • Credit Line

    Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund

  • Dimensions

    image: 9.5 × 7.3 cm (3 3/4 × 2 7/8 in.)
    mat: 15.2 × 13 cm (6 × 5 1/8 in.)
    framed: 21.6 × 19.3 × 0.6 cm (8 1/2 × 7 5/8 × 1/4 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2024.69.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Marie Lagaron, Avignon, France); (Christopher Wahren Fine Photographs, New Haven, CT), September 2023; NGA purchase, 2024.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

on verso, center printed in black ink on applied label: PORTRAITS AU DAGUERREOTYPE / PAR Mr & Mme BARBERON, / Rue St François, 9 / Pres L'Eglise St Michel / Bordeaux; on bottom edge, by unknown hand, bottom right in black ink: IE-755A

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