Historical Portrait
Lucille, portrait photograph
Archive record
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in.
About this photograph
This glass-plate negative preserves a portrait of a woman identified as Lucille, photographed in 1917. The photographer, Arnold Genthe, worked in the soft-focus pictorialist style and maintained a studio in New York during this period, having relocated there from San Francisco in 1911.
The negative is one of several thousand studio portraits held within a collection of roughly 20,000 items the Library of Congress acquired from Genthe's unclaimed studio after his death in 1942. The archive record provides no further information about the sitter's full name, occupation, or circumstances of the sitting.
The 5 x 7 inch format was a standard size for studio portraiture during this era, allowing for contact prints or moderate enlargement while retaining the soft-focus aesthetic Genthe favored throughout his four-decade career.
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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