Portrait of a Girl

1924

James Van Der Zee

Artist, American, 1886 - 1983

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print with applied color

  • Credit Line

    Corcoran Collection (Gift of Eric R. Fox)

  • Dimensions

    image/sheet: 17.15 × 12.07 cm (6 3/4 × 4 3/4 in.)

  • Accession

    2015.19.4389

  • Copyright

    © James Van Der Zee Archive, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Eric R. Fox, Washington, DC; gift to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1987; acquired by NGA, 2015.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1998

  • Developing Illusions, 1873-1998: Photographs from the Corcoran Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, November 14, 1998–January 18, 1999

Inscriptions

signed by artist, lower right in graphite: NYC [vertical] / VAN DER ZEE [vertical] / 1924; on verso, signed by artist, upper center in graphite: James VanDerZee / 1924; by Corcoran Gallery of Art, bottom right: 1987.27.2

Wikidata ID

Q64155565

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