Portrait of a Man and a Woman
c. 1850
Medium
2 daguerreotypes with applied color in a brass locket
Dimensions
image (each): 2.8 × 2.8 cm (1 1/8 × 1 1/8 in.) overall (locket closed): 5.5 × 3.9 × 0.4 cm (2 3/16 × 1 9/16 × 3/16 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund
Accession Number
2014.86.1
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
American 19th Century · 1800–1900
The artist cataloged as "American, 19th Century" represents a collective of unidentified painters active in the United States during the nineteenth century, with 380 known artworks preserved in this virtual museum's collection. These works span a diverse array of genres typical of the era, including portraits, landscapes, still lifes, and genre scenes, reflecting the burgeoning artistic output of ...