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Mother and Child
Inscriptions
Signed recto, lower right, in black pencil: "GERTRUDE KÄSEBIER"; inscribed recto, on hinged matte, lower left, in graphite: "6"; inscribed verso, across lower half, in graphite: "[illegible] Kasalun [?/could be Käsebier but not clear] / 273 [?] / Butta B [?] / 86 [illegible] J ¾ 5764-45 C / st 5 3/16 x 8⅛"; verso, on hinged matte, upper left, in graphite: "Mother and Child"; verso, on hinged matte, lower left, in graphite: "2 [encircled]"
Exhibition history
New York, New York, The Metropolitain Museum of Art, "The Art of Seeing: Photographs from the Alfred Stieglitz Collection," Spring 1978. Art Institute of Chicago, "The Human Form Divine: The Body as Seen by the Camera," February 8, 2003–June 1, 2003. Art Institute of Chicago, "Undressed: The Fashion of Privacy," June 22–September 29, 2013. (Martha Tedeschi and Emily Ziemba)
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Gertrude Käsebier / American, 1852–1934
- Date
- 1899
- Medium
- Gum bichromate print
- Dimensions
- Image/paper: 20.7 × 13.7 cm (8 3/16 × 5 7/16 in.); Hinged matte board: 36.1 × 29 cm (14 1/4 × 11 7/16 in.)
- Type
- Photograph
- Classification
- gum bichromate print
- Style
- Pictorialism
- Place
- United States
- Department
- Photography and Media
- Credit line
- Gift of Mina Turner
- Accession no.
- 1973.11
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Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Open-access museum record · AT-00006508
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