Via Fiori, Bellagio

1887

Alfred Stieglitz

Artist, American, 1864 - 1946

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    platinum print with mercury

  • Credit Line

    Alfred Stieglitz Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed to image): 22.2 x 16.6 cm (8 3/4 x 6 9/16 in.)
    mount: 24.9 x 19.4 cm (9 13/16 x 7 5/8 in.)
    mat: 49.6 x 32.9 cm (19 1/2 x 12 15/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1949.3.141

  • Stieglitz Estate Number

    61D

    Part of Stieglitz Key Set Online Edition

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  • Key Set Number

    35

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1949.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1958

  • Photographs by Alfred Stieglitz, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, March 16–April 27, 1958

Bibliography

1992

  • Arrowsmith, Alexandra, Thomas West, and Belinda Rathbone. Two Lives: A Conversation in Paintings and Photographs. Exh. cat. The Phillips Collection, Washington and New York, 1992: 132.

2002

  • Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 1, cat. 35.

Inscriptions

by Alfred Stieglitz, on mount, lower left, in graphite: Venetian Doorway—1894 [underlined] / Alfred Stieglitz; upper left verso, in graphite: Exhibition 1921; center left verso, in graphite: Bellagio—1887
by Doris Bry, lower left verso, in graphite: 61-D
by later hand, upper left verso, in graphite: 1 [in square]

Wikidata ID

Q64034711

Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data

Other Collections

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

Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1969-84-1 [albumen] and 1995-2-12 [lantern slide] (inscribed: no. 41 Via Fiori [Bellagio], 1887)

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:

1892, New York, The Society of Amateur Photographers of New York (as Street in Bellagio, lantern slide)
1921, New York (no. 2, as Street in Bellagio, 1887)

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