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Portrait of a Young Woman with a Daguerreotype
Also titled Portret van een jonge vrouw met daguerreotypie
Mathew Benjamin Brady (Lake George, 1823–1896)
1840 - 1860
- Medium
- copper (metal), leather, velvet (fabric weave), glass, silk
- Classification
- photograph
- Dimensions
- height 66 mm x width 53 mm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
About this work
A picture within a picture – one that tells the whole story. The daguerreotype is not like the fleeting snapshot of nowadays. It is a rare likeness of a loved one, to be kept close and cherished, as is done by this woman holding a daguerreotype portrait of her husband. A daguerreotype was unique and fragile. That is why they were kept in pretty frames or decorated cases.
