Untitled (Portrait of a Woman)
1879
- Medium
- Photograph on enamel in copper alloy frame with velvet liner
- Dimensions
- 7.7 × 6.3 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-190342
Celebrated Parisian portrait photographer Etienne Carjat established his reputation through celebrity portraiture but his mainstay was images of middle- and upper-class sitters like this couple, presumably husband and wife. Seeking images more permanent than those made on paper, they paid extra to have their portraits vitrified on enamel. The process yields exquisitely detailed, durable images that appear as fresh as the day they were delivered to the sitters’ hands.
Provenance
The Cleveland Museum of Art, John Cook Memorial Fund, 2017.8.2
Registry history
- 1879 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art — photographs
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