Il Penseroso

1902

Herbert G. French

Artist, American, 1872 - 1942

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    platinum print

  • Credit Line

    Robert B. Menschel Fund

  • Dimensions

    framed: 42.9 x 14.4 cm (16 7/8 x 5 11/16 in.)
    image: 19.7 x 7.7 cm (7 3/4 x 3 1/16 in.)
    mount: 26.1 x 8.6 cm (10 1/4 x 3 3/8 in.)
    mount: 40.3 x 11.8 cm (15 7/8 x 4 5/8 in.)

  • Accession

    2007.59.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Private collection; NGA purchase (through Charles Isaacs Photographs Inc., New York), 2007.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2014

  • A Subtle Beauty: Platinum Photographs from the Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2014 - 2015, unnumbered catalogue.

Inscriptions

on mount, signed by artist, lower right in graphite: HF 1902; on verso of mount, by unknown hand across center in graphite: 314 - 5/8 [?]; vertical lower center in graphite: 8252; across bottom in graphite: 8252. On verso of frame, affixed label for "Loan Collection of the Photo-Secession" with ink addition: Herbert G. French / Il Penseroso.; affixed label for "L'Effort / Ve Salon 1905"

Wikidata ID

Q64155141

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