Young Woman in a Patterned Dress
Unknown Artist
1860s
Medium
daguerreotype with hand-applied color
Dimensions
image: 6.8 × 5.7 cm · case: 9.4 × 8.2 cm
Classification
Photograph
Department
Photography
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Gift of Nina Rosenblum and Lisa Rosenblum
Accession Number
2024.16
About this artwork
Instead of expressing the sitter’s personality, the pose and composition are structured to draw attention to her prized possession: her best dress. The photographer employed a compositional formula and pose frequently chosen by photographers of that era to show off dresses made from fabric with complex, rhythmic geometric patterns.