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Gertrude Käsebier

Baron de Meyer in Shirt Sleeves, 1903

Description

Maker

  • Gertrude Käsebier, 1852-1934, American

Title

Baron de Meyer in Shirt Sleeves

Year

1903

Medium

Platinum print

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • platinum print

Dimensions

26.4 x 14.9 cm (10 3/8 x 5 7/8 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Signed in pencil at LR:Gertrude Kasebier

Type

  • Works on Paper,
  • Photographs

Credit

Florence Koehler Collection

Object Number

49.017.3

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Artist, Rebel, Dandy

April 26 - August 18, 2013

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.

Florence Koehler as Collector

February 13 - March 29, 1981

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