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Description: 'SEVILLE'

measurements note
6 1/2 by 9 3/4 in. (16.5 by 24.7 cm.)

ferrotyped, flush-mounted to heavy board, mounted again, numerical notations in unidentified hands in green crayon and pencil and a Metropolitan Museum of Art collection stamp on the reverse, 1933, printed between 1955 and 1959

PROVENANCE

Acquired by The Metropolitan Museum of Art through Gift of Photography in the Fine Arts, 1959

EXHIBITED

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Photography in the Fine Arts I, May - September 1959

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Spectacular Spain, February - May 1960

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Thirty Photographers, April - June 1969

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Camera and the Photograph: Images in Light, November 1984 - January 1985

LITERATURE

Other prints of this image:

Lincoln Kirstein and Beaumont Newhall, The Photographs of Henri Cartier-Bresson (The Museum of Modern Art, 1947), p. 17

Beaumont Newhall, The History of Photography from 1839 to the Present Day (The Museum of Modern Art, 1964), p. 157

Robert Delpire et al., Henri Cartier-Bresson, Photographer (Boston, 1979), pl. 90

Jean-Pierre Montier, Henri Cartier-Bresson and The Artless Art (Boston, 1996), pl. 14

Peter Galassi, Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Early Work (The Museum of Modern Art, 1987), p. 108