Young Woman in Green Dress
ca. 1857
Medium
Photography-Photoprint
Classification
Photography-Photoprint
Department
Smithsonian Collection
Museum
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Credit
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase through the Smithsonian Institution Collections Acquisition Program
Accession Number
2000.47.9
Tags
Art Historical Context
**Young Woman in Green Dress captured around 1857, presents a poised knee-length portrait of its subject in an elegant green gown, emblematic of mid-19th-century fashion This photoprint, housed in the Smithsonian American Art Museum's collection, was acquired through the Smithsonian Institution Collections Program. With the artist unidentified, it exemplifies the anonymous yet intimate nature of early photographic portraiture, where the focus shifts from the creator to the everyday individual immortalized in time. In the 1850s, photography revolutionizing visual culture in America, transition...
About the Artist
Unidentified ( ) · –