BIB_ID
440358
Accession number
MA 23777.1
Creator
Sarony, Napoleon, 1821-1896, photographer.
Display Date
New York, New York : Napoleon Sarony, 1882
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Purchased for The Dannie and Hettie Heineman Collection as the gift of the Heineman Foundation, 2021.
Description
1 photograph ; ferrotyped silver print, 171 x 239 mm
Notes
Photograph numbered "15" within the negative at lower left.
Photograph taken by Sarony in New York City in 1882; printed in 1930.
Forms part of a collection of Oscar Wilde trade cards and theatrical photographs (see MA 23777.1-7).
Photograph taken by Sarony in New York City in 1882; printed in 1930.
Forms part of a collection of Oscar Wilde trade cards and theatrical photographs (see MA 23777.1-7).
Inscriptions/Markings
With the subject's name, in pencil, in an unknown hand, and the Culver Pictures hand stamp, bar codes, and labels, on verso.
Provenance
Purchased from Swann Auction Galleries, Sale 2578, Lot 3, August 19, 2021.
Summary
Studio portrait shows Wilde seated, full length, on a sofa covered with a Turkish carpet and fur rug; he wears a quilted double breasted smoking jacket, knee-breeches, and silk stocking as he leans to the left with his arm resting on the arm of the sofa, his head resting against on his hand, with a book (i.e. a copy of his collected "Poems") held in his other hand, resting upright on his thigh.
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