The Jungfrau Group

1894, printed 1895/1896

Alfred Stieglitz

Artist, American, 1864 - 1946

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    platinum print

  • Credit Line

    Alfred Stieglitz Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed to image): 20.2 × 15.8 cm (7 15/16 × 6 1/4 in.)
    page size: 34.8 × 27.3 cm (13 11/16 × 10 3/4 in.)

  • Accession

    1949.3.151

  • Stieglitz Estate Number

    61E

    Part of Stieglitz Key Set Online Edition

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  • Key Set Number

    138

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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. 138.

Inscriptions

by Alfred Stieglitz, on interleaving tissue, upper right, in graphite: "The Jungfrau Group." / 1894.

Wikidata ID

Q64037726

Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data

Other Collections

A print corresponding with this photograph can also be found in the following collection(s):

Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, 14,268/7590,13 [platinum-palladium]

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:

possibly 1895, London, Salon (no. 313, as The Jungfrau)
possibly 1895, Salzburg (silver medal)
possibly 1896, Paris (no. 575, as La Jungfrau, platinum)
1899, New York (no. 29, as Swiss Giants, 1894, platinum direct)
possibly 1900, Newark, Ohio (no. 166, as The Jungfrau, 1894)
possibly 1903, Cleveland (no. 14, as The Jungfrau)

Lifetime Publications

A reproduction of this work appeared in the following publication(s) during Alfred Stieglitz’s lifetime:

“Photographs from the Camera Club Exhibition,” New-York Tribune (14 May 1899): illustrated supplement, 10 (ill., Swiss Giants)

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