The Jungfrau
1894, 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): 20.8 × 15.9 cm (8 3/16 × 6 1/4 in.)
page size: 33.8 × 27 cm (13 5/16 × 10 5/8 in.) -
Accession
1949.3.153
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Stieglitz Estate Number
64D
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Key Set Number
137
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Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1949.
Associated Names
Bibliography
2002
Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 1, cat. 137.
Inscriptions
by Alfred Stieglitz, on interleaving tissue, lower right, in graphite: The Jungfrau / 1894
Wikidata ID
Q64037674
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Stieglitz Collections
A corresponding print was given to the following institution(s) by Alfred Stieglitz during his lifetime, or was received or acquired from the estate:
George Eastman Museum, Rochester, 83:0660:0015 [lantern slide] (inscribed: The Jungfrau from Murren, Swiss / 86 / Alfred Stieglitz / The Camera Club, N.Y.)
Other Collections
A print corresponding with this photograph can also be found in the following collection(s):
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem (inscribed: Alfred Stieglitz / The Jungfrau / 1894)
National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2006.3.1.22
Location unknown
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:
probably 1895, London, Salon (no. 313, as The Jungfrau)
probably 1895, Salzburg (silver medal)
probably 1896, Paris (no. 575, as La Jungfrau, platinum)
1897, New York, Knickerbocker (as The Jungfrau, from Mürren, lantern slide)
1897, London, R.P.S. (no. 440, as The Jungfrau Group from Mürren, lantern slide)
1899, New York (no. 6, as The Jungfrau, 1894, platinum direct)
probably 1900, Newark, Ohio (no. 166, as The Jungfrau, 1894)
probably 1903, Cleveland (no. 14, as The Jungfrau)
Lifetime Publications
A reproduction of this work appeared in the following publication(s) during Alfred Stieglitz’s lifetime:
“Alfred Stieglitz and His Latest Work,” The Photographic Times 28:4 (April 1896): 164 (ill., The Jungfrau)
W. I. Lincoln Adams, Sunlight and Shadow (New York, 1897): 27 (ill., The Jungfrau)