Portrait of a Man and Child

American 19th Century, c. 1860

The image shows an adult and a child, posed together, in a portrait from the waist up. The adult is seated, with their right arm around the child. The adult has short, neatly-combed dark hair, deep-set eyes, and a… · description from the collection

Collection data

Artist: American 19th Century ¹
Date: c. 1860 ¹
Medium: ambrotype with applied color ¹
Original: 5,382 × 6,360 px ¹
License: CC0 (National Gallery of Art Open Access)
Credit: National Gallery of Art, Washington, Robert B. Menschel and the Vital Projects Fund

Object record, National Gallery of Art

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