From a Lenbach Sketch
1886, 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): 17.9 × 11.2 cm (7 1/16 × 4 7/16 in.)
page size: 34.8 × 27 cm (13 11/16 × 10 5/8 in.) -
Accession
1949.3.28
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Stieglitz Estate Number
70E
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Key Set Number
32
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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. 32.
Inscriptions
by Alfred Stieglitz, on interleaving tissue, lower right, in graphite: From a Lenbach Sketch / 1886
Wikidata ID
Q64037692
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Remarks
Through friendships with sculptors Moses Ezekiel and Erdmann Encke, Stieglitz received commissions to photograph paintings and drawings by fellow artists, including Franz von Lenbach. The subject and date of the sketch have not been identified.