The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 23, 2024
Portrait of Eleanora Duse
1910–1915
(American, 1868–1949)
Image: 33.1 x 24.4 cm (13 1/16 x 9 5/8 in.); Matted: 61 x 45.7 cm (24 x 18 in.)
Lawrence Hitchcock Fund 1995.29
© Courtesy of the G. Ray Hawkins Gallery
Location: not on view
Description
Adolph de Meyer's celebrity portraits are characterized by their soft focus and inventive lighting. The subject of this example is Eleanor Duse (1859–1924), an Italian-born tragic actress acclaimed throughout Europe and America. Assuming an appropriately theatrical pose, in de Meyer's composition she stares, with head slightly raised, directly at the camera. Lush shadows obscure much of the detail. De Meyer frequently used a lens that was sharply ground at its center and softly polished at its edges to produce the desired, mysterious effect.- Estate of Baron Adolph de Meyer; Private Collection, Los Angeles
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E Hinson. Catalogue of Photography. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996. Reproduced: P. 139
- Shadows and Dreams: Pictorialist Photography in America. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (September 5, 2015-January 17, 2016).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).
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