Ariadne

1857

Oscar Gustaf Rejlander

Artist, Swedish, 1813 - 1875

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    albumen print

  • Credit Line

    Paul Mellon Fund

  • Dimensions

    image (rounded top): 20.4 x 15.5 cm (8 1/16 x 6 1/8 in.)
    mount: 40.7 x 33.2 cm (16 x 13 1/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2007.29.38


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Howard and Jane Ricketts, London; NGA purchase, 2007.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2010

  • The Pre-Raphaelite Lens: British Photography and Painting, 1848 - 1875, National Gallery of Art, Washington; Musée d'Orsay, Paris, 2010 - 2011, no. 94.

2015

  • In Light of the Past: Celebrating Twenty-Five Years of Collecting Photographs at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, May 3 – July 26, 2015

2018

  • Oscar Gustave Rejlander: Artist Photographer, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 2018 - 2019, unnumbered catalogue.

2019

  • The Eye of the Sun: Nineteenth-Century Photographs from the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2019, unnumbered catalogue.

Inscriptions

on mount, lower right in graphite: Ariadne / after [unintelligible]...

Wikidata ID

Q64158572


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