Father and Son with Eggs, Cuzco

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

Extended information about this artwork

Object information is a work in progress and may be updated as new research findings emerge. To help improve this record, please email . Information about image downloads and licensing is available here.