Vitrier (Glazier), Paris

Photography and Media

1950, printed November 1976

Irving Penn
American, 1917–2009

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Photography and Media

Artist: Irving Penn
Title: Vitrier (Glazier), Paris
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 1950
Medium: Platinum-palladium print
Edition: 12 of 25
Inscriptions: Inscribed verso: “P1158 / .. [in a circle]”; inscribed verso: “VITRIER, PARIS, 1950 [in a box]”; stamped verso: “IRVING PENN”; inscribed verso: “.. / Platinum-palladium / Print made November 1976”; stamped verso: “Deacidified”; inscribed verso: “12/25 [in a circle]”; signed and stamped verso: “Irving Penn / Hand-coated by the photographer / IRVING PENN [in a circle]”; stamped and inscribed verso: “In addition to 25 prints of this / image in platinum metals, unnumbered, but signed, silver prints not exceeding a total of 7 may exist / I.P.”; stamped and inscribed verso: “PHOTOGRAPH BY IRVING PENN / Copyright © 1951 by / LES EDITIONS CONDE NAST S.A. / Not to be reproduced without / written permission of the / copyright owner.”
Dimensions: Image: 43.1 × 27.8 cm (17 × 11 in.); Paper: 57 × 39 cm (22 1/2 × 15 3/8 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Irving Penn
Reference Number: 1996.265
Copyright: Copyright Les Editions Condé Nast S.A.

Westerbeck, Colin. 1997. “Irving Penn: A Career in Photography.” Exh. cat. Art Institute of Chicago/Bulfinch Press. p. 40, cat. 68, pl. 16.
Travis, David. 2005. “Paris: Photographs from a Time that Was.” Exh. cat. Art Institute of Chicago/Yale University Press. p. 84.

Art Institute of Chicago, “Irving Penn, A Career in Photography,” November 22, 1997–February 1, 1998; traveled to St. Petersburg, Russia, State Hermitage Museum, March 1–May 16, 1998; Hamburg, Germany, Deichtorhallen, June 18–September 6, 1998; Munich, Germany, Müchner Stadtmuseum, October 6, 1998–February 21, 1999; San Francisco, California, Friends of Photography/Ansel Adams Center for Photography, November 11, 1999–January 23, 2000; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, March 25–June 4, 2000; Paris, France, Maison Européenne de la Photographie, September 13–November 5, 2000. (Colin Westerbeck)
Art Institute of Chicago, “Paris: Photographs from a Time that Was,” August 13–November 6, 2005. (David Travis)
Art Institute of Chicago, “Irving Penn: A Tribute,” October 31–December 13, 2009. (Matthew S. Witkovsky)

Given by the artist to the Art Institute, 1996.

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