Editorial[Postmortem], ca. 1850, Daguerreotype, Image (visible): 3 1/2 ? 4 11/16 in. (8.9 ? 11.9 cm), Photographs, Alphonse Le Blondel (French, Br?hal 1814?1875 Lille), In bequeathing to later generations a record of the faces of their ancestors, an entire clas...
EditorialEverhard Jabach (1618?1695) and His Family, ca. 1660, Oil on canvas, 110 1/4 ? 129 1/8 in. (280 ? 328 cm), Paintings, Charles Le Brun (French, Paris 1619?1690 Paris), This painting combines the domestic intimacy and descriptive richness of Dutch and Fl...
Editorial[Seated Lady in Striped Dress with Four Little Girls], 1850s?60s, Coated salted paper print from glass negative, 15.5 x 19.4 cm. (6 1/8 x 7 5/8 in.), Photographs, Franz Antoine (Austrian, 1814?1882), During his tenure as director of the Royal Gardens t...