Portrait of a Woman
Mlle. Verdier
c. 1858
Medium
daguerreotype with applied color
Dimensions
image: 9.8 × 7 cm (3 7/8 × 2 3/4 in.) framed: 15.24 × 12.7 cm (6 × 5 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund
Accession Number
2023.113.1
About the Artist
Mlle. Verdier
Mlle. Verdier was a pioneering French daguerreotypist active in Bordeaux during the mid-19th century, emerging as one of the rare female practitioners in the nascent field of photography at a time when the medium was dominated by men. Little is known of her early life or training, which remains undocumented in available sources, though her work reflects the technical mastery required to produce po...