Hedwig Stieglitz and Agnes Engelhard

1907

Alfred Stieglitz

Associated Names
Alfred Stieglitz

Artist, American, 1864 - 1946

The image depicts two women from the waist up. The woman on the left is seated with her body facing slightly to the right, looking at the standing woman. She has her hair covered with a black scarf and is wearing a black dress, holding a bunch of flowers. The woman on the right is standing next to the seated woman, resting her hands on the backrest of the bench with her head slightly bowed. She has light brown hair styled in a loose updo and is wearing a red coat over a white blouse with a collar decoration. The background shows blurred greenery that could be trees, with a body of water behind the two women.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    Autochrome

  • Credit Line

    Alfred Stieglitz Collection

  • Dimensions

    image: 16.4 x 11.6 cm (6 7/16 x 4 9/16 in.)
    mat: 39.9 x 29.6 cm (15 11/16 x 11 5/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1949.3.300

  • Key Set Number

    321

The image shows a man leaning his head on his hand, positioned with his face resting on his left hand. He has a mustache, thin-framed eyeglasses, and thick, greying hair that curls slightly at the edges. He is dressed in a formal jacket, a white shirt, and a black bow tie. The background is a soft, dark blur.

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1949.

Associated Names

Bibliography

2002

  • Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 1, cat. 321.

Inscriptions

on mount, by later hand, upper right in graphite: M; on verso, lower right: Mother and Sister Agnes–Stieglitz

Wikidata ID

Q64034810

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:

possibly 1907, New York (no. 18, as Portraits—Sunlight, Autochrome)

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