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Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College
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Identification and Creation

Object Number
P1992.33
People
Edward Steichen, American (Luxembourg 1879 - 1973 West Redding, Conn., USA)
Title
Rodin's "Balzac" -- Toward the Light, Midnight
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph
Date
1908, printed later
Places
Creation Place: Europe, France, Meudon
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/280987

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 26.1 x 34.5 cm (10 1/4 x 13 9/16 in.)
sheet: 27.7 x 35.5 cm (10 7/8 x 14 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: Edward Steichen
  • inscription: verso, upper left to upper righ, graphite: Edward Steichen
    Balzac: Toward the Light, Midnight, Meudon. 1908
    (by Rodin)
    Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
    May not be reproduced without the written permission
    of the photographer (address him at The Museum of
    Modern Art, New York)
  • inscription: verso, upper center, graphite: hp II S [illegible]
  • label: verso, upper right, printed ink on paper with typed marks: [Fine Arts Library label]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Harvard University Fine Arts Library, Cambridge, MA, from the artist through the Museum of Modern Art, 1966, transferred from the Fine Arts Library, 1992.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Transfer from the Fine Arts Library, Harvard University
Copyright
© The Estate of Edward Steichen / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Accession Year
1992
Object Number
P1992.33
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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