The Alfred Stieglitz Collection
  • Recto of print
  • Recto of print with original mount
  • Verso of original mount

Alfred Stieglitz (American, 1864–1946)

A Wet Day on the Boulevard, Paris, 1894, printed c. 1897

Photogravure; 15.3 x 28.4 cm (image); 15.6 x 28.7 cm (paper); 34.4 x 42.3 cm (mount)
Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1949.887

 

A later print of this image also exists in the Alfred Stieglitz Collection at the Art Institute of Chicago (1949.702).

Additional resources related to this object are to the right.

 

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