Come Along
Artist
Oscar Gustav Rejlander
(English, born Sweden, 1813 - 1875)
Dateca. 1860
MediumAlbumen print
DimensionsImage and sheet: 8 5/8 × 6 5/16 inches (21.91 × 16.03 cm)
Mount: 13 3/4 × 10 inches (34.93 × 25.4 cm)
Mount: 13 3/4 × 10 inches (34.93 × 25.4 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation
Object number2017.44.12
SignedOn mount recto, bottom, in black pen: “Taken from Life by Rejlander.”
InscribedTitled on mount verso, center, in black pen: ““Come along.””
MarkingsOn mount recto, upper right, in pencil: “cs137 6053”;
On mount verso, upper left, in pencil: “Cal” [?];
On mount verso, bottom, in black ink: “Inverness.”;
On mount verso, lower right, in pencil: “27”.
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DescriptionImage of young woman in satin dress and bonnet with basket over wrist as she carries a bowl. There are floor length curtains behind her and a staircase in front.Gallery LabelArtistic circles fiercely debated photography’s status as fine art throughout the 1800s. Oscar Rejlander, who studied painting and sculpture in Rome before settling in England, firmly believed that photography must emulate painting. Taking inspiration from staged scenes of everyday life in English genre painting, Rejlander composed his photographs with costumed characters like this housemaid. Based on the title—Come Along—the young woman appears to be called to attention by an unseen person just beyond the picture’s frame.
Purchased from Robert Hershkowitz, Ltd., Sussex, England by The Hall Family Foundation, Kansas City, MO, 2017;
Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2017.
Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2017.
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