Balzac: The Open Sky

Balzac: The Open Sky

Photograph

Edward Steichen

Maker
American, b. Luxembourg, 1879–1973

Balzac: The Open Sky

1908
Gelatin silver print
Image: 23.5 x 18.4 cm (9 1/4 x 7 1/4 in.)
Paper: 25.4 x 20.6 cm (10 x 8 1/8 in.)
Mount: 26.9 x 21.8 cm (10 9/16 x 8 9/16 in.)
Bequest of Joanna T. Steichen, 2011
2011.0544.0078.1
Inscriptions recto (in image): STEICHEN / MDCCCCIX
on envelop attached to print (ink): #53
(printed): Permalife. / pH 8.5
folder (printed on applied label): 53- BALZAC: THE OPEN SKY
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