The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of December 19, 2025
The Dutch Girl
1936
(American, 1896–1958)
Image: 49.4 x 29.2 cm (19 7/16 x 11 1/2 in.); Paper: 55 x 40.4 cm (21 5/8 x 15 7/8 in.); Matted: 66 x 55.9 cm (26 x 22 in.)
Gift of Mrs. Ralph S. Allen 1942.1163
Location: Not on view
Description
Throughout his career, Outerbridge wrote numerous articles on photography, including both technical essays and more philosophical meditations on his favorite subjects—feminine beauty and photographing the nude. Eighteenth-century French paintings, particularly depictions of harem scenes, appear to have been a direct source for his erotic nudes. Both Outerbridge and the French painters he admired presented the female nude with a balance of classical, naive innocence and worldly sensuality. In this image, Outerbridge depicted a partially nude young woman, whose averted face is thrown into shadow by her lace cap. He posed the model so that the projecting ends of the cap would echo her breasts.- Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E Hinson. Catalogue of Photography. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996. Reproduced: P. 264
- Paul Outerbridge: Command Performance. J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA (organizer) (March 31-August 9, 2009).Legacy of Light: Master Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 24, 1996-February 2, 1997).Laguna Beach Museum of Art, Nov. 21 - Jan. 10, 1982: "Paul Outerbridge: A Singular Aesthetic: Photographs & Drawings, 1921-1941: A Catalogue Raisonné," catalogue no. 96, p. 146, repr. p. 146.Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Conservation Center for Art and Historical Artifacts, October 26, 1982.
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