Callot Swallow-Tail Dress (c. 1919), New York

1974

Irving Penn

Artist, American, 1917 - 2009

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    platinum/palladium print on Bienfang paper mounted on aluminum, 1978

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Irving Penn

  • Dimensions

    image: 51.91 × 46.14 cm (20 7/16 × 18 3/16 in.)
    sheet (visible): 53.34 × 47.31 cm (21 × 18 5/8 in.)
    overall: 76.2 × 66.04 × 1.27 cm (30 × 26 × 1/2 in.)

  • Accession

    2002.119.86

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Irving Penn; gift to NGA, 2002.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

center verso in graphite: 1545 (circled) / Callot Swallow-tail Dress (underlined) / BF Paper on Aluminum / Platinum-palladium / Print made March, 1978; right of center in graphite: 14/19; artist's copyright stamp with graphite addition: 1977; stamp: Hand-coated by the photographer; with graphite addition: Irving Penn (circled); stamp: In addition to 19 (graphite addition) numbered prints of this image / in platinum metals, unnumbered, but signed, silver / prints not exceeding a total of 10 (graphite addition) may exist.; upper right in graphite: VAL

Wikidata ID

Q64155360

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