Study of Head of Christ

Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.

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Artist: F. Holland Day / American, 1864–1933
Date: 1898
Medium: Platinum print
Dimensions: Image/paper: 13 × 11.7 cm (5 1/8 × 4 5/8 in.); First mount: 18.2 × 17.3 cm (7 3/16 × 6 13/16 in.); Second mount: 35.5 × 27.9 cm (14 × 11 in.)
Type: Photograph
Classification: platinum print
Style: Pictorialism
Place: United States
Department: Photography and Media
Credit line: Alfred Stieglitz Collection
Accession no.: 1949.860

Menelek
F. Holland Day
1896/1902 · Photograph
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00006862
Beauty is Truth, Truth Beauty, No. 1 from the portfolio "American Pictorial Photography, Series I" (1899); edition 146/150
F. Holland Day
1896/97 · Photograph
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00007010
Ebony and Ivory, No. 8 from the portfolio "American Pictorial Photography, Series I" (1899); edition 146/150
F. Holland Day
1897 · Photograph
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00007015
Ethiopian Monarch
F. Holland Day
1897, printed c. 1902 · Photograph
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00007047