Guitar Player, Seville
Artist
Baron Adolf de Meyer
(American, born Germany, 1868 - 1949)
Date1907
MediumPlatinum print
DimensionsImage and sheet: 14 × 10 7/16 inches (35.56 × 26.51 cm)
Mount: 21 15/16 × 16 inches (55.72 × 40.64 cm)
Mount: 21 15/16 × 16 inches (55.72 × 40.64 cm)
Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Object number2005.27.3974
SignedSigned on image recto, lower right corner, in black ink: "DE MEYER"
Inscribednone
Markingsnone
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DescriptionImage of a young man wearing a wide brimmed hat and playing a guitar.Gallery LabelBaron Adolph de Meyer began exhibiting internationally in 1894, while living in Germany. His reputation grew in subsequent years, as he moved between Europe and the United States. De Meyer made his name as an art photographer, working in the Pictorialist style of the day, before joining Vogue and Vanity Fair magazines as the first great modern fashion photographer. This work exemplifies de Meyer's early style, conveying a feeling of delicate refinement-the result of his technique (the use of a special soft-focus lens) as much as his choice of subjects. This work combines the era's fascination for colorful European "types" with a composition and stylistic treatment reminiscent of Old Master paintings.
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