[Young Woman Holding a Flower]
![[Young Woman Holding a Flower] by Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey](https://images.artheonmuseum.org/met/ph/thumb/young-woman-holding-a-flower-818215.webp)
Medium
Daguerreotype
Dimensions
Image: 4 11/16 × 3 11/16 in. (11.9 × 9.4 cm) Overall with mounting: 5 7/8 × 4 3/4 × 5/16 in. (15 × 12 × 0.8 cm)
Classification
Photographs
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Fund, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 2019
Accession Number
2019.72
Tags
About the Artist
Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey · 1804–1892
Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey (1804–1892), born in Langres, France, as the sole surviving child of Claude Joseph Girault and Barbe Philiberte Rosine Piétrequin, inherited the lordships of Genevrières and Prangey, adopting his full surname in 1825. After studies at Langres college and in Paris, where he earned baccalauréats in letters (1826) and law (1828), he pursued artistic training under ...