The image depicts a woman sitting on a red sofa. She has a straight face and is holding a fan on her lap. She has brown hair styled in an updo and wears a blue dress with white lace details. The background has brown tones and red drapery.
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Portrait of a Woman

Antoine Claudet (French, 1797 - 1867)

c. 1850

Medium
stereoscopic daguerreotypes with applied color
Classification
Photograph
Dimensions
image (each): 6.7 × 5.8 cm (2 5/8 × 2 5/16 in.) ; overall: 8.3 × 17.4 × 0.3 cm (3 1/4 × 6 7/8 × 1/8 in.)
Culture
American
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CPH
Credit line
Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
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