Henriette Robert (1852–1853): Art, History and Details

Henriette Robert (1852–1853) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Louis-Rémy Robert (French, 1811–1882).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

Henriette Robert, daughter of the distinguished amateur photographer of this portrait, is seated on a stone balustrade in the garden of the manufactory at Sèvres, where her father spent his entire professional career in various positions of authority from 1839 to 1879. Throughout his working career, however, Robert devoted much passion and energy to his interest in photography. One of his earliest themes was portraiture, embodied in a small, remarkable group of intimate views of his family and his fellow artists at Sèvres. In this spare composition, Robert posed his daughter in a contemplative manner, holding a book and deliberately looking into the camera's lens. This beautiful portrait of Henriette is distinquished by its intensity and its allusion to her personality.

Object facts

• Title: Henriette Robert
• Date: 1852–1853
• Creator attribution: Louis-Rémy Robert (French, 1811–1882)
• Culture: France, 19th century
• Type: Photograph
• Technique: salted paper print from waxed paper negative
• Dimensions: Image: 21.8 x 17 cm (8 9/16 x 6 11/16 in.); Mounted: 32.4 x 26.4 cm (12 3/4 x 10 3/8 in.); Matted: 50.8 x 40.6 cm (20 x 16 in.)
• Collection: PH - French 19th Century
• Department: Photography
• Accession number: 1999.214

Collection credit

John L. Severance Fund

Further reading listed by the museum

• Cleveland Museum of Art, “Cleveland Museum of Art Acquires Rare Chinese Paintings, Baroque Porcelain Plaque and Other New Acquisitions Exhibited with Hanging Scrolls,” December 20, 1999, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.

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