A Venetian Gamin
1894
Artist, American, 1864 - 1946
Artwork overview
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Medium
platinum print processed with mercury
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet (trimmed to image): 16.3 x 13.2 cm (6 7/16 x 5 3/16 in.)
mat: 49.1 x 32.7 cm (19 5/16 x 12 7/8 in.) -
Accession
1949.3.117
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Stieglitz Estate Number
58C
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Key Set Number
167
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Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1949.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1983
Photographs by Alfred Stieglitz, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, February 3–May 8, 1983; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, June 17–August 14, 1983; The Art Institute of Chicago, October 18, 1983–January 3, 1984
1989
On the Art of Fixing a Shadow: 150 Years of Photography, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, May 7–July 30, 1989; The Art Institute of Chicago, September 16–November 26, 1989; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, December 21, 1989–February 25, 1990
1992
Stieglitz in the Darkroom, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, October 4, 1992–February 14, 1993
Bibliography
1983
Greenough, Sarah, and Juan Hamilton. Alfred Stieglitz: Photographs and Writings. Washington, 1983: no. 9, pl. 4.
1989
Greenough, Sarah, Joel Snyder, David Travis, and Colin Westerbeck. On the Art of Fixing a Shadow: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Photography. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington; Art Institute of Chicago, 1989: pl. 146.
2002
Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 1, cat. 167.
Inscriptions
by Alfred Stieglitz, on mount, left center verso, in graphite: Venetian Gamin / 1887
by later hands, on mount, upper left verso, in graphite, in square: 1; lower left verso: 58C
Wikidata ID
Q64034701
Scholarly Remarks and Key Set Data
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:
1897, Calcutta (no. 207, as Venetian Gamin)
1897, London, R.P.S. (no. 440, as Venetian Gamins, lantern slide)
1899, New York (no. 85, as Venetian Gamin, 1894, platinum direct)
1900, New York (no. 103, as A Venetian Gamin)
1901, Calcutta (no. 506, as A Venetian Urchin)
probably 1934, New York (no. 3, as Venetian Boy, 1887)
1942, New York (as Venetian Gamin, Venice, 1887)
Lifetime Publications
A reproduction of this work appeared in the following publication(s) during Alfred Stieglitz’s lifetime:
William George Oppenheim, “Photography and Law as to Copyright,” The American Annual of Photography and Photographic Times Almanac for 1895 (New York, 1894): 254 (ill., A Young Garibaldi)
“Speaking of Pictures . . . These are by one of Photography’s Pioneers,” Life 14:14 (5 April 1943): 6 (ill., Venetian Gamin, 1887)