Gertrude Käsebier

Sitter Baron Adolph de Meyer and photographer Kasebier both published their work in Steichen's Camera Work and were members of London's Linked Ring photographic group. De Meyer has been described as "a dandy, a flaneur-an arbiter of taste and trends" who would follow his career as a fine art photographer with work as the staff photographer at Vogue and Vanity Fair magazines. In this portrait, one in a dream-like series captured by Kasebier, de Meyer appears in his shirt sleeves. While not shocking, at this time such a state of undress would have signaled a level of familiarity between the subject and photographer. This was indeed the case with de Meyer and Kasebier, who traveled in the same artistic circles.