Artist
Étienne CarjatFrench, 1828–1906
CultureFrench
Titles
- Charles Baudelaire
Date1862
MediumAlbumen silver print
DimensionsImage: 9 1/8 × 7 1/8 in. (23.2 × 18.1 cm)
Sheet: 9 1/8 × 7 1/8 in. (23.2 × 18.1 cm)
Mount: 15 3/8 × 11 1/2 in. (39 × 29.2 cm)
Sheet: 9 1/8 × 7 1/8 in. (23.2 × 18.1 cm)
Mount: 15 3/8 × 11 1/2 in. (39 × 29.2 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by The Brown Foundation, Inc., The Manfred Heiting Collection
Object number2004.344
Non exposé
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Department
PhotographySpecial Collections
Object Type
Bought by Manfred Heiting from Lunn Ltd.
Exhibition History"The Art of Fixing a Shadow", The Art Institut of Chicago, 1989; National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1989; "Baudelaire-Paris", Bibliotheque Historique de la Ville de Paris, 1993.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
in pencil verso mount top left corner: "Meeee"
in pencil verso mount top right corner: "5A"
in pencil verso mount center: "Le Baudelaire / [illegible] / Portrait de Carjat"
in pencil verso mount bottom "IIe parte / chap. 3/ page 218"
in pencil verso top center "36-7-8-9-W[?]"
upper right "1181/11"
upper right in ink reading vertically "46/63"
in pencil verso mount top right corner: "5A"
in pencil verso mount center: "Le Baudelaire / [illegible] / Portrait de Carjat"
in pencil verso mount bottom "IIe parte / chap. 3/ page 218"
in pencil verso top center "36-7-8-9-W[?]"
upper right "1181/11"
upper right in ink reading vertically "46/63"
in ink recto mount bottom right: "EL. Carjat"
Stamped in red verso mount: "G. SIROT / 35, Rue Jacob, 35 / PARIS-VI e"
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Timothy H. O'Sullivan
June 1864
Albumen silver print from glass negative
2023.234.2.18