Historical Portrait
Farre, Lieutenant, portrait photograph
Archive record
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. | Photograph shows Henry (Henri) Farré, an artist who created paintings of World War I aerial battles.
About this photograph
The record identifies the sitter as Henry (Henri) Farré, an artist who created paintings of World War I aerial battles, and dates the negative to 1918.
Arnold Genthe made the photograph. Genthe worked in a soft-focus pictorialist style and maintained a studio in New York from 1911 into the 1940s. After his death in 1942, the Library of Congress acquired roughly 20,000 items from his unclaimed studio, including several thousand portraits.
The United States entered the war in April 1917. Studio portraits of men in uniform became common as those who enlisted sat for photographs before departure, often so a copy could remain at home.
The exact circumstances under which Farré sat for Genthe are not recorded here. The rank of lieutenant and the 1918 date place the portrait late in the American involvement in the conflict.
Compiled from the catalogue record and reference notes on the formats and events involved. The archive record above is the primary source.
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