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[Variations on the "Elvira" Dress]

Pierre-Louis Pierson|Unknown|Countess Virginia Oldoini Verasis di Castiglione

Date

1861–67

Medium

Albumen silver print from glass negative with applied color

Dimensions

Image: 12.5 x 8.9 cm (4 15/16 x 3 1/2 in.) A Image: 12.5 x 8.7 cm (4 15/16 x 3 7/16 in.) B Image: 12.3 x 8.9 cm (4 13/16 x 3 1/2 in.) C Image: 12.3 x 8.8 cm (4 13/16 x 3 7/16 in.) D Mount: 32.2 x 24 cm (12 11/16 x 9 7/16 in.) Mat: 50.8 x 40.6 cm (20 x 16 in.)

Object type

Photograph

Classification

Photographs

Object number

2005.100.409a–d

Credit line

Gilman Collection, Gift of The Howard Gilman Foundation, 2005

The Met object ID 286840. The source CSV marks this record public domain, the official API identifies it as image-bearing, and the image was reverified as public domain before this page rendered.