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Rejlander, Oscar
English (b. Sweden, 1813-1875)

DESCRIPTIVE TITLE: Putto as Allegory of Painting

1886
albumen print
9.3 X 9.2 cm. (rounded corners)
Museum Purchase: ex-collection A.E. Marshall
GEH NEG: 17086
72:0249:0038

OLD GEH NUMBER: 3014

INSCRIPTION: recto-(in pencil on mount) "O.R. Rejlander. 1856"

NOTES: Catalogued 11/96, MAP. This photograph was published in "The Photographic Art News", December 3, 1886. Here it is documented that Rejlander photographed children in various poses, such as "a study from the nude posed, to allegorically personate painting as one of a pair of subjects; the other being photography, in which a sunflower and a camera were introduced". The pairing allegory of photography is conserved at the Edinburgh Photographic Society (see E.Y. Jones, "Father of Art Photography. O.G. Rejlander 1813-1875", 1973, pg.53).

SUBJECTS:
allegory, painting
portrait, child
artifact, palette
artifact, palette

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