At Lake Como
1887, printed 1895/1896
Artist, American, 1864 - 1946
Artwork overview
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Medium
platinum print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet (trimmed to image): 12.6 × 18.1 cm (4 15/16 × 7 1/8 in.)
page size: 33.8 × 27 cm (13 5/16 × 10 5/8 in.) -
Accession
1949.3.44
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Stieglitz Estate Number
64C
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Key Set Number
47
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Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1949.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2002
Alfred Stieglitz: Known and Unknown, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, June 2–September 2, 2002; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, October 6, 2002–January 5, 2003
Bibliography
2002
Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 1, cat. 47.
Inscriptions
by Alfred Stieglitz, on interleaving tissue, lower right, in graphite: At Lake Como / 1887
Wikidata ID
Q64037639
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Other Collections
A print corresponding with this photograph can also be found in the following collection(s):
National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2006.3.1.20
Lifetime Exhibitions
A print from the same negative—perhaps a photograph from the Gallery’s collection—appeared in the following exhibition(s) during Alfred Stieglitz’s lifetime:
1888, Vienna (no. 52.a.4, as Italienische Waschfrauen am Comosee)
1892, New York, The Society of Amateur Photographers of New York (as Washerwomen at Lake Como, lantern slide)
1893, New York (no. 191, as Washerwomen at Lake Como)
1893, Philadelphia (no. 517, as At Lake Como)
1894, Milan
1899, New York (no. 32, as At Lake Como, 1887–1899, platinum direct)
1903, Denver (no. 143, as At Lake Como)
Lifetime Publications
A reproduction of this work appeared in the following publication(s) during Alfred Stieglitz’s lifetime:
Photographische Mitteilungen 25 (June 1888): opp. 73 (ill., Am Garda-See)
The Photographic Times 23 (1 December 1893): 684 (ill., At Lake Como, photogravure)
The American Amateur Photographer 7:12 (December 1895): 565 (ill., untitled)
Charles DeKay, “The Photographer As Artist,” The New York Times Illustrated Magazine (4 June 1899): 6 (ill., At Lake Como)