Auguste Rodin
Artist
Gertrude Käsebier
(American, 1852 - 1934)
Date1904
MediumGum bichromate print
DimensionsImage and sheet: 12 5/16 × 9 7/16 inches (31.27 × 23.97 cm)
Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Object number2005.27.4168
InscribedSigned and titled
Signed in artist's hand
Front of Print
Pencil
On View
Not on viewCollections
Terms
This portrait of the sculptor Rodin-probably the most celebrated artist of his era-reflects the subjectivity of the art-photography movement known as Pictorialism. By throwing her lens slightly out of focus and printing her negative on a sensitized sheet of tissue paper, Gertrude Käsebier creates an image that is at once bold and ephemeral, descriptive and other-worldly.
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