"Army Day" Parade, Forbidden City, Beijing, China, 1948

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Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image: 16.1 × 24 cm (6 5/16 × 9 7/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Gary Davis

Accession Number

2013.145.7

Artists / Makers

Henri Cartier-Bresson (artist) French, 1908 - 2004

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Inscription

on verso, stamped, lower left in black ink with blue pencil underlining: PEIPING ESSAY 48; stamped, center left in black ink: LIFE PHOTO / BY / Cartier-Bresson [artist's name in graphite]; stamped, perpendicular, upper left in blue ink: 28316-A [letter in blue pencil]; center left in graphite: "Army Day" parade in / Forbidden City; inverted, center in graphite: 76 / 285 / 26; upper right in graphite, circled: 6; lower right in graphite: x CHINA AF; lower center in graphite: PF49165 (GD-TL-244) GDC-183

Provenance

(Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York); Gary Davis, Greenwich, CT, purchased 2002; gift to NGA, 2013.

Associated Names

Davis, Gary S.