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[Silhouette of a Woman / A Maiden at Prayer]
Creator
Gertrude KäsebierAmerican Photographer · 1852–1934
All works by this person →> My children and their children have been my closest thought, but from the first days of dawning individuality, I have longed unceasingly to make pictures of people...to make likenesses that are biographies, to bring out in each photograph the essential personality. > > --Gertrude Käsebier > > Käsebier's career in art followed from her first career as a mother. After studying painting at Pratt In
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- about 1899
- Medium
- Platinum print
- Culture
- American
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- 3fdd523d-de4c-4c80-a89f-79d02f8fcd0b
Gertrude Käsebier may have intended this photograph of her daughter and namesake as a bridal portrait. Shown in a silhouetted profile and kneeling with her hands clasped in prayer, the younger Gertrude is framed by the balcony door, with the railing behind her simulating an ornate altar rail. The sunlight that flows in through the open door and gently bathes the room also glimmers through the veil covering her face and trailing down her back. The print's vertical cropping emphasizes the figure, more clearly defining her posture of prayer.
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