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Father and Son with Eggs, Cuzco

A work made of platinum-palladium print.
Copyright The Irving Penn Foundation

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  • A work made of platinum-palladium print.

Date:

1948, printed May 1978

Artist:

Irving Penn
American, 1917–2009

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Photography and Media

Artist

Irving Penn

Title

Father and Son with Eggs, Cuzco

Place

United States (Artist's nationality:)

Date  Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.

Made 1948

Medium

Platinum-palladium print

Edition

4 of 14

Inscriptions

Inscribed verso: “1726 / .. [in a circle]”; inscribed verso: “FATHER AND SON WITH EGGS [underlined] (CUZCO)”; inscribed verso: “BF Paper on Aluminum / Platinum-Palladium / Print made May 1978”; stamped verso: “Deacidified”; inscribed verso: “4/14”; signed and stamped verso: “Irving Penn / Hand-coated by the photographer [in a circle]”; stamped and inscribed verso: “PHOTOGRAPH BY IRVING PENN / Copyright © 1978 by IRVING PENN / Not to be reproduced without / written permission of the / photographer, and / The Conde Nast Publications, Inc.”; stamped and inscribed verso: “In addition to 14 prints of this / image in platinum metals, unnumbered, but signed, silver prints not exceeding 0 may exist.”

Dimensions

Image: 30 × 28.9 cm (11 13/16 × 11 7/16 in.); Paper: 57 × 36.2 cm (22 1/2 × 14 5/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Irving Penn

Reference Number

1996.258

Copyright

Copyright The Irving Penn Foundation

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