Mother and Sleeping Child, Cuzco

1948, printed 1989

Irving Penn

Artist, American, 1917 - 2009

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    platinum/palladium print on Rives BFK paper mounted on aluminum, 1989

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Irving Penn

  • Dimensions

    image: 25.4 × 24.45 cm (10 × 9 5/8 in.)
    sheet (visible): 27.15 × 26.19 cm (10 11/16 × 10 5/16 in.)
    overall: 71.12 × 60.96 × 1.27 cm (28 × 24 × 1/2 in.)

  • Accession

    2002.119.34

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Irving Penn; gift to NGA, 2002.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

center verso in ink: 3400; in graphite Cuzco Mother and Sleeping Chld / (Peru, 1948) (circled) from color / Rives Paper on Aluminum / Single coating, multiple printing / Platinum-palladium / Print made April 1989; in ink: 2/6; artist's stamp with graphite addition: Irving Penn (circled); center left verso: artist's copyright stamp with ink addition: 1989, courtesy of Vogue; lower center right verso: stamp: Hand-coated by the photographer; with graphite addition: IP; upper right in graphite: Np

Wikidata ID

Q64155359

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