Portrait of a Woman

Provenance

Margaret Harker, Sussex, England; (sale, Christie's, South Kensington, 1979); (Bernard Quaritch Ltd., London); NGA purchase, 2013.

Portrait of a Woman

Beard's Photographic Institutions

c. 1845

Accession Number

2013.49.2

Medium

daguerreotype with applied color

Dimensions

image (visible): 9.1 × 6.7 cm (3 9/16 × 2 5/8 in.) | mat: 11.1 × 8.5 cm (4 3/8 × 3 3/8 in.) | case (closed): 12.3 × 9.7 × 1.5 cm (4 13/16 × 3 13/16 × 9/16 in.)

Classification

Photograph

Museum

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C., United States

Credit Line

Robert B. Menschel and the Vital Projects Fund