Baron de Meyer's Palace, Venice
Baron de Meyer's Palace, Venice

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Baron de Meyer's Palace, Venice,

1905

Gertrude Käsebier, American, 1852–1934
x1976-327

The celebrated New York studio portraitist Gertrude Käsebier captured this hydrangea-lined arcade in the Palazzo Balbo Valier, which the glamorous portrait photographer Baron Adolph de Meyer rented every summer. At this palace on the Grand Canal, he and his wife Olga entertained guests, such as Käsebier and her friend Frances Benjamin Johnston, a fellow photographer. The two women cruised the Mediterranean in 1905 and particularly enjoyed "wallowing in the charms of Venice." It is clear from this photograph, as well as others from the same trip, that Käsebier valued a soft-focus, painterly approach to photography. With Alfred Stieglitz, she helped found the Photo-Secession, which strove to establish the medium as a fine art.

Information

Title
Baron de Meyer's Palace, Venice
Dates

1905

Maker
Gertrude Käsebier
Medium

Gum bichromate print

Dimensions

19.4 x 24.2 cm. (7 5/8 x 9 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of the Estate of Mina Turner

Object Number
x1976-327
Place Made

Europe, Italy, Venice

Inscription

Titled in graphite, verso: Baron de Meyer's Palace, Venice

Culture
American
Type
gum bichromate prints, black-and-white photographs, photographs
Techniques
gum bichromate process
Subject
flowers (plants), corridors, archways, palaces

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