Portrait of a Young Woman

Claudet, Antoine-François-Jean

1840s

copper, glass, wood, velvet, metal, daguerreotype

Victoria and Albert Museum

A portrait of a young woman is presented, with two color calibration charts and two dark, square objects in the foreground. The woman's face is partially obscured. A portrait of a young woman is presented, with two color calibration charts and two dark, square objects in the foreground. The woman's face is partially obscured. Photograph by Antoine Claudet, Portrait of a Young Woman (from the Houghton family?), daguerreotype, 1840s.