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Carl Durheim: English: Postmortem of a Child   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Artist
Carl Durheim  (1810–1890)  wikidata:Q1037524
 
Carl Durheim
Alternative names
Karl Durheim, Charles Durheim
Description Swiss lithographer and photographer
Date of birth/death 23 November 1810 Edit this at Wikidata 30 January 1890 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Bern Bern
Work period 1845 Edit this at Wikidata–1883 Edit this at Wikidata
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q1037524
Title
English: Postmortem of a Child
Description
English: The careful and sensitive arrangement of this child's body and bedclothes, the choice of viewpoint, and the reliance upon light to create a sense of reality, individuality, and remoteness demonstrate Charles Durheim's skill as a daguerreotypist.
Date circa 1852
date QS:P571,+1852-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Medium hand-colored daguerreotype
Dimensions

1/4" plate

Image: height: 6.8 cm (2.6 in); width: 9.4 cm (3.7 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,6.8U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,9.4U174728

Object: height: 12.7 cm (5 in); width: 15.1 cm (5.9 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,12.7U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,15.1U174728
institution QS:P195,Q29247
Accession number
84.XT.267.9
Exhibition history The Art of the Daguerreotype, The J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center, Los Angeles, 14 April 1998–12 July 1998
Inscriptions

Plate mark bottom-right corner:

H.B. [eagle] 40
all sideways

Imprinted on label verso backing, on blue paper, in black ink:
verso left:

DESSINS / a la PLUME / et au / CRAYON.

verso center:

LITHOGRAPHIE / CH. DURHEIM / Grand vue 183 à Berne / ATELIER PHOTOGRAPHIQUE / Portraits au Daguerreotype / Sur plaques papier

verso center:

verre et sur ivoire / se font en Pavillon vitre

verso right:

CARTES / de / VISITES / et d' / ADRESSES
Notes
English: In the mid-1800s, it became common to use the new medium of photography to create a memento mori such as this one.
References Lowry, Bates; Isabael Barrett Lowry (1998) The Silver Canvas : Daguerreotype Masterpieces from the J. Paul Getty Museum, exh. cat., Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, p. 121
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The Getty Center, Object 64235

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