Fascinating Lady
Photograph
Fascinating Lady
1963
Gelatin silver print
Image: 6 9/16 × 9 7/16 in. (16.6 × 24 cm)
Paper: 8 × 10 in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm)
Gift of Time-Life Books
1968.0184.0451
Inscriptions Inscribed in orange grease pencil on recto BC: # 5
Typed in black ink on applied label, verso BC: (Lisa) 1/63 5) GUARDIAN: Beneath the mysterious smail of Mona \ Lisa stands one of the two Marines protecting the price- \ less painting by Leonardo da Vinci. The Louvre first \ decided to insure Mona for $100 million but discovered \ the prmium was exorbitant. So safety and security \ measures are all that protect the fragile panel of poplar \ wood on its stay in the United States. \ Credit: Erich Hartmann © 1963 MAGNUM Photos
Typed in black ink on applied label, verso BC: (Lisa) 1/63 5) GUARDIAN: Beneath the mysterious smail of Mona \ Lisa stands one of the two Marines protecting the price- \ less painting by Leonardo da Vinci. The Louvre first \ decided to insure Mona for $100 million but discovered \ the prmium was exorbitant. So safety and security \ measures are all that protect the fragile panel of poplar \ wood on its stay in the United States. \ Credit: Erich Hartmann © 1963 MAGNUM Photos
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