An Idyll
1887, printed 1895/1896
Artist, American, 1864 - 1946
Artwork overview
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Medium
platinum print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet (trimmed to image): 9.3 × 13.6 cm (3 11/16 × 5 3/8 in.)
page size: 27.3 × 34.4 cm (10 3/4 × 13 9/16 in.) -
Accession
1949.3.42
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Stieglitz Estate Number
75E
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Key Set Number
52
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Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1949.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2002
Alfred Stieglitz: Known and Unknown, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, June 2–September 2, 2002; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, October 6, 2002–January 5, 2003
Bibliography
2002
Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 1, cat. 52.
Inscriptions
by Alfred Stieglitz, on interleaving tissue, upper right, in graphite: An Idyll / 1887
Wikidata ID
Q64037633
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Remarks
This photograph was made using an Aplanat 19-inch Durchm .5 lens and 1/5 second exposure (see Hermann Schnauss, Photographischer Zeitvertreib. Eine Zusammenstellung einfacher und leicht ausführbarer Beschäftigungen und Unterhaltungen mit Hilfe der Camera [Düsseldorf, 1890], 5).
Other Collections
A print corresponding with this photograph can also be found in the following collection(s):
Museum Ludwig, Cologne [albumen]
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, study collection [albumen]
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:
1889, Berlin (no. 81.9, as Ochsen [stie.])
1893, Philadelphia (no. 525, as An Iydll)
Lifetime Publications
A reproduction of this work appeared in the following publication(s) during Alfred Stieglitz’s lifetime:
Der Amateur-Photograph 2 (November 1888): opp. 161 (ill., Ochsengespann)
The Photographic Times 23 (21 July 1893): 386 (ill., An Idyll)
John Clarke, “Beginners’ Column,” The American Amateur Photographer 5:11 (November 1893): opp. 502 (ill., An Idyl)