Historical Portrait
Schumann-Heink, copy portrait photograph
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1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in.
About this photograph
Arnold Genthe photographed the opera singer Ernestine Schumann-Heink in 1906. The original was made as a copy portrait, suggesting it reproduced an earlier photograph.
Genthe worked in the soft-focus pictorialist style. He maintained a studio in San Francisco from 1896 to 1911, then moved to New York and continued working into the 1940s.
The photograph survives as a glass negative measuring five by seven inches, now held by the Library of Congress. The Library acquired roughly 20,000 items from Genthe's unclaimed studio after his death in 1942.
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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