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[Portrait of pensive woman holding book]
1850s–1870s
- Medium
- Albumen silver print
- Dimensions
- 8.5 × 5.6 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-492435
Full-length, studio portrait of a seated woman in a pensive pose. She leans her right elbow on a cloth-covered table, and rests her chin in her hand. She holds a book in her lap. A decorative column is visible on the right side of the image, behind which a curtain has been partially drawn across the neutral backdrop.
Provenance
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Registry history
- 1850s–1870s — Recorded in the collection of J. Paul Getty Museum — photographs
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