Portrait of Auguste Rodin
Artist: Gertrude Stanton Käsebier (American, 1852-1934)
Date: about 1908
Dimensions:
Image: 33.3 × 24.1 cm (13 1/8 × 9 1/2 in.)
Medium: platinum print
Classification: Photographs
Credit Line: Gift of Lewis H. Clement
Object number: 1913.553
Label Text:As the bronze figure in the lower corner suggests, this photograph depicts the famous French sculptor Auguste Rodin (1840–1917). The photograph is autographed by Rodin at the bottom of the image, next to the mark of photographer Gertrude Käsebier. Käsebier is now recognized as one of the most important photographers of the 20th century and was acknowledged by the businessman who donated the photograph in 1913 as a “unique artist of the camera.”
The acceptance of this particular photograph into a Museum collection in 1913 was an unusual choice. It was the first photograph in the collection at a time when photography was not popularly recognized as a form of fine art and when art produced by women was particularly marginalized in the art world. It would be another 50 years before the Museum would begin to formally collect photography.
The acceptance of this particular photograph into a Museum collection in 1913 was an unusual choice. It was the first photograph in the collection at a time when photography was not popularly recognized as a form of fine art and when art produced by women was particularly marginalized in the art world. It would be another 50 years before the Museum would begin to formally collect photography.
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