Woman with Roses (Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn in Lafaurie Dress), Paris
1950, printed 1977
Artist, American, 1917 - 2009

Artwork overview
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Medium
platinum/palladium print on Bienfang paper mounted on aluminum, 1977
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 54.61 × 37.15 cm (21 1/2 × 14 5/8 in.)
sheet (visible): 56.52 × 38.74 cm (22 1/4 × 15 1/4 in.) -
Accession
2002.119.48
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Irving Penn; gift to NGA, 2002.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2015
In Light of the Past: Celebrating Twenty-Five Years of Collecting Photographs at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, May 3 – July 26, 2015
Inscriptions
center verso in graphite: 42 / Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn / BF 360 Paper on Aluminum / Multiple coating and Printing / (1) Platinum / (2) Platinum-palladium / Print made August-September 1977; left of center: 33/40; center verso: artist's copyright stamp with graphite addition: 1950; center verso stamp: Hand-coated by the photographer; with graphite addition: Irving Penn; lower right verso, stamp: In addition to 40 (graphite addition) numbered prints of this image / in platinum metals, unnumbered, but signed, silver / prints not exceeding a total of 25 (graphite addition) may exist.; upper right in graphite: A.S.
Wikidata ID
Q64155281