Portrait of a Young Woman

1930

James Van Der Zee

Artist, American, 1886 - 1983

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print with applied color

  • Credit Line

    Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund

  • Dimensions

    image: 17.3 × 11.8 cm (6 13/16 × 4 5/8 in.)
    sheet: 17.8 × 12.5 cm (7 × 4 15/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2019.58.2

  • Copyright

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

More About this Artwork

Scholarly Article:  James Van Der Zee’s Portrait Photographs

Article:  James Van Der Zee’s Retouched Portraits

To present sitters in the best possible light and perfect his portrait photographs, 20th-century Harlem photographer Van Der Zee even drew jewelry onto his negatives.

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

James Van Der Zee, New York; Donna Van Der Zee, New York; (Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York); NGA purchase, 2019.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

signed by artist, lower right in negative: NYC [vertical] / VAN DER ZEE [vertical] / 1930; on verso, upper center and lower center stamped in purple ink: G.G.G. PHOTO STUDIO, / 2077-7th Ave., N.Y.C.

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