A Venetian Well
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): 20.6 × 16 cm (8 1/8 × 6 5/16 in.)
page size: 34.8 × 27.3 cm (13 11/16 × 10 3/4 in.) -
Accession
1949.3.121
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Stieglitz Estate Number
62E
Part of Stieglitz Key Set Online Edition
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Key Set Number
162
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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. 162.
Inscriptions
by Alfred Stieglitz, on interleaving tissue, upper right, in graphite: A Venetian Well / 1894.
Wikidata ID
Q64037730
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
Other Collections
A print corresponding with this photograph can also be found in the following collection(s):
National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2006.3.1.6
Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1995-2-14 [lantern slide]
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:
1899, Philadelphia (no. 283, as A Venetian Courtyard)
1899, New York, Camera Club (no. 66, as Venetian Courtyard, 1894, platinum)
1934, New York (no. 11, as Venetian Well, 1894, or no. 22, as Venetian Well II, 1894, gelatin silver)
Lifetime Publications
A reproduction of this work appeared in the following publication(s) during Alfred Stieglitz’s lifetime:
The Artist 26 (November 1899): lvi (ill., A Venetian Courtyard)
Photo Era 3 (December 1899): 510 (ill., A Venetian Courtyard)
Joseph Prince Loud, “The Second Philadelphia Salon,” Photo Era 3 (December 1899): 510 (ill., A Venetian Courtyard)