Landscape Painting on Glass
name: label: maker
content: Daguerre, Louis Jacques Mande
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Cliché Verre or Glass Painting; "Landscape Painting on Glass", by Louis J. Daguerre. The light-colored pigment of this painting was applied to the glass with Daguerre's fingers, and his prints are still visible. The reversed painting is back by dark velvet. This painting was presented by Daguerre's widow to Henry W.M. Meade when he visited Bry-sur-Marne in 1853. The inscription on the back of the painting is in Henry Meade's handwriting; "Painting by Daguerre, the Inventor of the Art Presented by Madame Daguerre to the Meade Brothers at Bry sur Marne, France 1853".
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Photographic History
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content: Photography
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PG.000954
label: catalog number
content: 954
label: accession number
content: 1982.0010
objectType: label: Object Name
content: glass painting
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: glass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 3/4 in x 11 1/8 in; 24.765 cm x 28.2575 cm