L'Après-midi d'un Faune - Nijinsky 1912

Meyer, Adolf de (1868-1949)

Benson, Richard (1943-2017)


Item type:
photographic object
Date of creation:
1912
Technique / Medium:
palladium prints

    Item location

  • Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
    [Museum inv. no.: 1978.573]There are several prints of this photograph (printed by Richard Benson in 1978), all under the same accession number.

Description

Nijinsky is photographed from the waist up, in profile, naked apart from a decoration around his neck. He holds a bunch of grapes in his raised left hand.

People as subjects

Nijinsky, Waslaw (ca. 1890-1950) (Dancer)

Iconclass

48C8311
portrait of dancer

Image URLs

image link 1

RIdIM record id

5083

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