"Army Day" Parade, Forbidden City, Beijing, China

1948

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Artist, French, 1908 - 2004

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Gary Davis

  • Dimensions

    image: 16.1 × 24 cm (6 5/16 × 9 7/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2013.145.7

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York); Gary Davis, Greenwich, CT, purchased 2002; gift to NGA, 2013.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

on verso, stamped, lower left in black ink with blue pencil underlining: PEIPING ESSAY 48; stamped, center left in black ink: LIFE PHOTO / BY / Cartier-Bresson [artist's name in graphite]; stamped, perpendicular, upper left in blue ink: 28316-A [letter in blue pencil]; center left in graphite: "Army Day" parade in / Forbidden City; inverted, center in graphite: 76 / 285 / 26; upper right in graphite, circled: 6; lower right in graphite: x CHINA AF; lower center in graphite: PF49165 (GD-TL-244) GDC-183

Wikidata ID

Q64155017

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