La Cigale

Photography and Media

1898

Frank Eugene
American, 1865–1936

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Status: Currently Off View
Department: Photography and Media

Artist: Frank Eugene
Title: La Cigale
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 1898
Medium: Platinum print
Inscriptions: No markings recto or verso
Dimensions: Image: 12.2 × 17.2 cm (4 13/16 × 6 13/16 in.); Paper: 13 × 19.9 cm (5 1/8 × 7 7/8 in.); Mount: 45.2 × 33.8 cm (17 13/16 × 13 5/16 in.)
Credit Line: Alfred Stieglitz Collection
Reference Number: 1949.671
IIIF Manifest The International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) represents a set of open standards that enables rich access to digital media from libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural institutions around the world. Learn more.: https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/66205/manifest.json

Shimbun, Asahi. 1997. “Alfred Stieglitz and his Contemporaries.” Exh. cat. Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography. p. 104, pl. 98.

Art Institute of Chicago, “Out of a Dark Room: Photographic Variations from the Permanent Collection,” April 15–September 6, 1995. (Sylvia Wolf)
Art Institute of Chicago, “From Darkroom to Digital: Photographic Variations,” November 19, 2005–February 26, 2006. (Elizabeth Siegel)

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