Unknown American
[Seated Man with Hat]

CultureAmerican
Titles
  • [Seated Man with Hat]
Date1850s
MediumSalted paper print with applied color
DimensionsImage (At open): 7 1/16 × 5 3/16 in. (18 × 13.2 cm)
Sheet: 8 3/16 × 5 3/4 in. (20.8 × 14.6 cm)
Mount: 8 7/16 × 6 7/16 in. (21.5 × 16.3 cm)
Credit LineGift of Dan and Mary Solomon
Object number2022.739
Non exposé

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Description


As photography became increasingly widespread in the 1840s and 1850s, its intersection with other fine arts became more complex. Daguerreotypes were fitted into the type of case previously used for painted miniatures, for instance, and some miniaturists transitioned to the task of hand-tinting photographic portraits. In this paper-print example, a painted studio backdrop mimics the type of aristocratic garden setting that might have appeared in a traditional portrait painting, and the entire photograph has been made more lifelike through the addition of watercolor.



ProvenanceDan and Mary Solomon; given to MFAH, 2022.

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