The Truant, Mittenwald

1886, printed 1895/1896

Alfred Stieglitz

Artist, American, 1864 - 1946

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    platinum print

  • Credit Line

    Alfred Stieglitz Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed to image): 19.6 × 14 cm (7 11/16 × 5 1/2 in.)
    page size: 34.8 × 27 cm (13 11/16 × 10 5/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1949.3.25

  • Stieglitz Estate Number

    71A

    Part of Stieglitz Key Set Online Edition

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  • Key Set Number

    17

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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. 17.

Inscriptions

by Alfred Stieglitz, on interleaving tissue, lower right in graphite: The Truant / (Mittenwald, 1886)

Wikidata ID

Q64037693

Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data

Lifetime Publications

A reproduction of this work appeared in the following publication(s) during Alfred Stieglitz’s lifetime:

William George Oppenheim, “Distinguished Photographers of To-Day,” The Photographic Times 23 (1 December 1893): 695 (ill., The Truant)

The Photographic Times 26 (May 1895): 297 (ill., The Truant)

Edwin B. Giles, “How to Make Oil Paintings,” The American Amateur Photographer 7 (May 1895): 204 (ill., The Truant)

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