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Two Cholas (Mestizas) From Puno, Cuzco

A work made of gelatin silver print.
Copyright The Irving Penn Foundation

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  • A work made of gelatin silver print.

Date:

1948, printed 1949

Artist:

Irving Penn
American, 1917–2009

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Photography and Media

Artist

Irving Penn

Title

Two Cholas (Mestizas) From Puno, 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

Gelatin silver print

Edition

of 8

Inscriptions

Inscribed verso: 172724-273/MLY; stamped verso: COPYRIGHT / NOT TO BE REPRODUCED WITHOUT / WRITTEN PERMISSION FROM / THE CONDE NAST PUBLICATIONS, INC.; stamped verso: PHOTOGRAPH / BY / PENN; inscribed verso: ..; inscribed verso: TWO CHOLAS (MESTIZAS) FROM PUNO / CUZCO, DEC. 1948 [in a box]; stamped and inscribed verso: PHOTOGRAPH BY IRVING PENN / Copyright © 1960 by Irving Penn, / COURTESY OF VOGUE / Not to be reproduced without / written permission of the / copyright owner and / THE CONDE NAST PUBLICATIONS INC.; stamped and inscribed verso: SIGNED, SILVER PRINTS OF / THIS NEGATIVE NOT EXCEEDING 8.; signed and stamped verso: Irving Penn / IRVING PENN [in a circle]; inscribed verso: Print made 1949. / IP.

Dimensions

Image/paper: 20.2 × 19 cm (8 × 7 1/2 in.); Mount: 35.5 × 28.4 cm (14 × 11 3/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Irving Penn

Reference Number

1996.262

Copyright

Copyright The Irving Penn Foundation

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