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Shroud of Turin

Artist Giuseppe Enrie (Italian, 1886 - 1961)
DateMay 1931
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage and sheet: 11 3/8 × 9 1/16 inches (28.89 × 23.02 cm)
Mount: 16 5/16 × 12 3/8 inches (41.43 × 31.43 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation
Object number2017.61.11
SignedArtist’s blind stamp on sheet recto, lower left: “FOT.CAV.G.ENRIE”, “RIPRODUZIONE INTERDETTA”; Attribution printed on mount recto, lower left, in brown ink: “Cav. G. ENRIE FOTOGRAFO RIPRODUZIONE INTERDETTA”.
InscribedOn mount recto, top, in brown type: “SANTO VOLTO DEL DIVIN REDENTORE / (PARTICOLARE DELLA S. SINDONE)”; On mount recto, bottom center, in brown type: “Adoramus Te, Christe, et Benedicimus Tibi”; On mount recto, lower left, in brown ink: [illeg. In script]; On mount recto, lower right, in brown type: “IL PRESIDENTE DELLA COMMISSIONE ESECUTIVA / [illeg. Script]”; On mount recto, bottom, in brown type: “TORINO 3-24 MAGGIO 1931”; Blind stamp on mount recto, lower left edge: “CALLEGARI-MILANO”.
MarkingsOn mount verso, upper right, in pencil: “8107/1”.
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DescriptionImage of a dark negative image on a herringbone cloth depicting a portrait of a man with beard and shoulder-length hair. His eyes are closed and there are two white horizontal lines (possibly folds in fabric) near the top and bottom.Provenance
The Hall Family Foundation, Kansas City, MO, 2017;   
Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2017.
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