Historical Portrait
Lucille, portrait photograph
Archive record
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in.
About this photograph
Arnold Genthe photographed a sitter named Lucille in 1917, producing a glass-plate negative measuring five by seven inches. The portrait survives in the Library of Congress collection.
Genthe worked in the soft-focus pictorialist style. He maintained a studio in San Francisco from 1896 to 1911 before relocating to New York, where he continued photographing into the 1940s. After his death in 1942, the Library of Congress acquired roughly 20,000 items from his unclaimed studio.
The archive record provides no further information about the sitter's identity or the circumstances of the sitting. The negative remains one of several thousand studio portraits in Genthe's collection, which also includes extensive documentation of San Francisco's Chinatown, dance photography, and autochromes.
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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