The Truant, Mittenwald
1886, printed 1895/1896
Alfred Stieglitz
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): 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 Number
1949.3.25
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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
Q64037693Scholarly 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)