Portrait of a Woman

Provenance

Ross Kelbaugh, Marriottsville, MD; NGA purchase, 2023.

Portrait of a Woman

Ball, James Presley

c. 1850

Accession Number

2023.39.17

Medium

daguerreotype with applied color

Dimensions

image (visible): 5.1 × 3.9 cm (2 × 1 9/16 in.) | mat: 5.8 × 4.5 cm (2 5/16 × 1 3/4 in.) | case (closed): 7.4 × 6.2 × 1.8 cm (2 15/16 × 2 7/16 × 11/16 in.)

Classification

Photograph

Museum

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C., United States

Credit Line

Ross J. Kelbaugh Collection, Purchased with support from the Ford Foundation