File:Unidentified Photographer - Dead Child On a Sofa - 2002.35 - Cleveland Museum of Art.tif
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[edit]Dead Child On a Sofa
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Unidentified Photographer |
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Dead Child On a Sofa |
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| Object type | photograph | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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This carefully staged daguerreotype of a dead child is an outstanding example of a very common subject: the postmortem portrait. Using the stylistic conventions of the day, the unidentified artist successfully created a visually pleasing scene, despite the nature of the image. Dressed in white with a bouquet of flowers on the chest, the child, seen in profile, reclines on an elaborately patterned sofa. Delicate flesh tones were added to the cheek and arm, suggestive of a healthy child sleeping. The high rate of infant mortality throughout the 19th century made this variety of portraiture common, satisfying the emotional need of the parents to have a lasting memory of a loved one. |
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| Date | circa 1855 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | Daguerreotype, applied color, quarter-plate | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dimensions | Image: 6.3 x 8.7 cm (2 1/2 x 3 7/16 in.); Case: 11.8 x 9.4 cm (4 5/8 x 3 11/16 in.); Mounted: 8.2 x 10.7 cm (3 1/4 x 4 3/16 in.); Matted: 50.8 x 61 cm (20 x 24 in.) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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2002.35 |
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| Place of creation | America, 19th century | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Credit line | John L. Severance Fund | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Source/Photographer | https://clevelandart.org/art/2002.35 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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