Henri Cartier-Bresson
The Sonnentheil House

The Sonnentheil House

© Henri Cartier-Bresson/ Magnum Photos

The Sonnentheil House
The Sonnentheil House
CultureFrench
Titles
  • The Sonnentheil House
  • from the series The Galveston That Was
Date1962
Place depictedGalveston, Texas, United States
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 7 15/16 × 12 in. (20.2 × 30.5 cm)
Sheet: 9 1/2 × 12 3/4 in. (24.1 × 32.4 cm)
Credit LineMuseum commission
Object number65.238
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Provenance Research Ongoing Exhibition HistoryExhibited: " The Galveston That Was," Centre on the Strand, Galveston, TX, Sep 21 - Dec 15 1971 (LN:71.10)
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
verso, upper left corner in pencil: "63 [x'd out in red pencil]", in red pencil: "89 [circled]", "pp 162-163"; center in pencil: "css 55", "7697-20", in black ink[upside down] "1826 I"
recto top left "89", bottom margin cropping marks
verso center brown stamp in outlined box: "Photograph by/Henri Cartier-Bresson/©1962 MAGNUM PHOTOS/15 West 47th Street, N.Y.C. 36".

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