Portrait of a Girl
1925
Artist, American, 1886 - 1983

Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 17.2 × 12.5 cm (6 3/4 × 4 15/16 in.)
sheet: 20.3 × 12.7 cm (8 × 5 in.) -
Accession
2019.127.19
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Copyright
© James Van Der Zee Archive, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
James Van Der Zee, New York; Donna Van Der Zee, New York; (Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York); NGA purchase, 2019.
Associated Names
Inscriptions
signed by artist, lower left in negative: VANDERZEE / NYC [underlined] / 1925; on verso, by unknown hand, top left in graphite perpendicular: 1918.102; center left and center stamped twice in black ink perpendicular: G.G.G. Photo Studio, Inc. / 109 West 135th St.; by unknown hand, center right in graphite perpendicular: 1925 / James Van Der Zee; bottom center: PF9960H