Oct 21, 2002 - Sale 1947

Sale 1947 - Lot 276

Price Realized: $ 3,450
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 5,000
VON GLOEDEN, BARON WILHELM<>
Male nude seated on a rock, Taormina. Platinum/palladium print, 11¾x10½ inches (29.8x26.6 cm.), signed, dated, numbers "16/2" and inscribed "Taormina," in ink, on recto with Von Gloeden's hand stamp on verso; framed. 1914
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Von Gloeden's sitter was posed to mimic the young man in the 1836 painting by Hippolyte Flandrin (1809-64), which currently resides in the Louvre. Flandrin was a student of Ingres who made a name for himself as the official painter to Napoleon III.<