id: 159093
accession number: 1995.29
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url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1995.29
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Portrait of Eleanora Duse, 1910–1915. Baron Adolph de Meyer (American, 1868–1949). Platinum print; image: 33.1 x 24.4 cm (13 1/16 x 9 5/8 in.); matted: 61 x 45.7 cm (24 x 18 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Lawrence Hitchcock Fund 1995.29 © Courtesy of the G. Ray Hawkins Gallery
title: Portrait of Eleanora Duse
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creation date: 1910–1915
creation date earliest: 1910
creation date latest: 1915
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creditline: Lawrence Hitchcock Fund
copyright: © Courtesy of the G. Ray Hawkins Gallery
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culture: America, 20th century
technique: platinum print
department: Photography
collection: PH - American 1900-1950
type: Photograph
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CREATORS
* Baron Adolph de Meyer (American, 1868–1949) - artist
Baron Aldoph de Meyer American, b. France, 1868 - 1949 Born Adolph Edward Sigismund Meyer-Watson in Paris to a Jewish father and a Scottish mother, de Meyer was educated in Dresden. The King of Saxony conferred the title of baron so that de Meyer and his wife, Donna Olga Alberta Caraccio, could attend the 1901 coronation of England's King Edward VII. Olga was Edward's goddaughter and was reputed also to have been his illegitimate child. De Meyer's work falls into two distinct phases. Until 1914 the photographer and his elegant wife led a privileged and stylish life, intimates of European royalty and of accomplished artists. De Meyer produced society portraits as well as photographs of the avant-garde -- including his famous images of Nijinsky and the Ballet Russe. A member of the Linked Ring (1898 - 1909), his work was shown at Stieglitz's gallery "291" and published in Camera Work (the subject of the entire October 1912 issue). Due to the stirrings of the First World War and de Meyer's ties to Germany, in 1914 he and Olga moved to the United States, where he put his familiarity with high society and expertise in photography and art to use for Condé Nast's publications. He was among the first professional photographers of fashion and is considered a preeminent practitioner. His work for Vogue, Vanity Fair, and later Harper's Bazaar pioneered a new and expanding field. De Meyer later returned to Europe, and then again to America, settling in Hollywood during World War II. The baroness died in Europe in 1929. De Meyer died in Hollywood after the war, when interest in his work had subsided substantially. T.W.F.
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measurements: Image: 33.1 x 24.4 cm (13 1/16 x 9 5/8 in.); Matted: 61 x 45.7 cm (24 x 18 in.)
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inscription: Written in pencil on recto: "DEMEYER"
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Legacy of Light: Master Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art
opening date: 1996-11-24T05:00:00
Legacy of Light: Master Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 24, 1996-February 2, 1997).
title: Shadows and Dreams: Pictorialist Photography in America
opening date: 2015-09-05T00:00:00
Shadows and Dreams: Pictorialist Photography in America. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (September 5, 2015-January 17, 2016).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
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PROVENANCE
Estate of Baron Adolph de Meyer; Private Collection, Los Angeles
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CITATIONS
Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E Hinson. Catalogue of Photography. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996.
page number: Reproduced: P. 139
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