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Italy
About the Artwork
Italy provides insight into Käsebier’s earliest artistic productions. The woman’s pose and central placement emphasize the picture’s formalism and careful construction. Her rigid vertical posture echoes the trees in the background. Soft focus, a device borrowed from Pictorialist photography, frustrates a clear view of her features, suggesting that the image is neither portrait nor snapshot but a symbolic statement about womanhood and its association with nature.
Inscriptions
Written in pencil on verso of photograph: Mar/7 x 10”; Written in pencil on verso of mount: “Kasebier x 1.08”
Provenance
2000-2022: (Lee Gallery, Winchester, MA), sold to Michael Mattis and Judith Hochberg, Scarsdale, NY 2000-2022: Michael Mattis and Judith Hochberg, Scarsdale, NY, sold to The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH September 12, 2022-: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Gertrude Käsebier (American, 1852–1934)
- Date
- c. 1889
- Medium
- platinum print mounted to Japanese paper
- Dimensions
- Image: 18.6 x 12 cm (7 5/16 x 4 3/4 in.); Paper: 18.6 x 12 cm (7 5/16 x 4 3/4 in.); Mounted: 30 x 21.1 cm (11 13/16 x 8 5/16 in.)
- Type
- Photograph
- Classification
- Photograph
- Department
- Photography
- Credit line
- Gift of Michael Mattis and Judith Hochberg
- Accession no.
- 2022.116
More by Gertrude Käsebier in museum collections
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Blessed Art Thou Among Women, from "American Pictorial Photography, Series II" (1901); edition 34/150
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Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Open-access museum record · AT-00012635
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