Sotheby's: Important Photographs from The Metropolitan Museum of Ar: Lot 43
BARON ADOLF DE MEYER 1868-1949
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approximately 9 3/8 by 7 1/4 in. (23.8 by 18.9 cm.)
warm-toned, mounted, numbered '115' in an unidentified hand in pencil on the mount, together with a backboard with typed credit, publication, and caption label with numerical notations in various unidentified hands in pencil and ink, circa 1919
PROVENANCE
Robert Brandau
Acquired by the Gilman Paper Company from the above, 1979
LITERATURE
Robert Brandau, De Meyer (New York, 1976), pl. 33 (presumably this print)
NOTE
This photograph was reproduced in the May 1, 1919, issue of Vogue with the following caption: 'Eager-eyed from under her bridal veil, she gazes in the fortune-telling crystal, hoping to see her dreams there in the clear yet mystery-filled glass. Fastening the draping veil of rose point lace are jeweled wings of platinum set solidly with diamonds and only Cartier could have devised the flexible setting.'
In 1913, De Meyer was hired as Vogue's first full-time staff photographer. His pictorial images set the tone for fashion photography during the 1910s and 1920s.
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