Rudolf Eickemeyer, Jr.
Evelyn Nesbitt

ArtistAmerican, 1862–1932
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Evelyn Nesbitt
Date1905
MediumPlatinum print
DimensionsImage/Sheet:8 1/2 × 6 1/2 in. (21.6 × 16.5 cm)
Mount: 17 3/8 × 12 1/8 in. (44.2 × 30.8 cm)
Credit LineThe Sonia and Kaye Marvins Portrait Collection, museum purchase funded by Sonia and Kaye Marvins
Object number85.220
Not on view

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Special Collections
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Description

Rudolph Eickemeyer, Jr. was an
eminently successful portrait photographer, active early in this century, who
enjoyed the patronage of a great number of the social elite
in and around New
York City. One of his sitters of note was the New York architect Stanford
White, whom he photographed in
1899. Another was Evelyn Nesbit, the woman in the red swing,
the chorus girl, the purported mistress of Stanford White, and the wife of Henry
V
. Thaw, who in a fit
of jealous rage gunned down White in
1906. In 1901 Eickemeyer produced an immensely popular
suite of photographs featuring Nesbit that included this and other traditional
poses in addition to some controversial and risqué depictions. It was a
collection made even more famous by the scandal. Not only was Eickemeyer a
commercially successful portraitist, but he was also a respected and early
member of the linked Ring Brotherhood of Pictorialist photographers.




Provenance[Paul M. Hertzmann, Inc., San Francisco]; purchased by MFAH, 1985.
Exhibition HistoryExhibited, "Platinum Photographs; 1880s to 1920s", The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Lower Brown Corridor, May 24, 2004 - September 19, 2004.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
recto below image to the right in orange ink " R E 1905 "

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