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Cromer's Amateur
French (active ca 1840s)

DESCRIPTIVE TITLE: Portrait of woman in parlor with sewing materials

ca. 1845
daguerreotype
7.23 x 5.89 cm. (oval), 1/6 plate
Gift of Eastman Kodak Company: ex-collection Gabriel Cromer
GEH NEG: 13192
76:0168:0001

NON-GEH NUMBER: #10D-502 (Cromer)

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCE: Buerger, Janet E. --French Daguerreotypes.-- Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989. p. 69.//

EXHIBITION HISTORY:
"French Primitive Photography", US, PA, Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art, November 17 - December 28, 1969. (Traveled).//
"French Daguerreotypy", US, NY, Rochester, GEH - Brackett Clark Gallery, February - June, 1977.//
""Permanent" Survey Exhibition - 19th Century", US, NY, Rochester, GEH - Second Floor Galleries, August 1979 - March 1984.//
"From Today Painting is Dead: Emergence of Photography During July Monarchy", US, NY, Rochester, Memorial Art Gallery, December - March 11, 1989.//
"Now and Then: Making The Daguerreotype", US, NY, Rochester, GEH - Discovery Gallery, October 9, 1993 - April 3, 1994.//

INSCRIPTION: verso, by Cromer: "Collection photographique de Gab. Cromer Daguerreotype d'un amateur de l'epoque. Marveilleux petite tableau d'interieur! Cet amateur était un artiste."

FRAME: passe-partout enclosure

NOTES: Cataloged JB, updated 9/89, SB.

SUBJECT: portrait, female

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