Photograph by Ed Pollard, Hasselblad H4D50 - 2019.

Untitled (Woman with crescent sickle)

Editor Blaise Adolphe Giraudon (Giraudon's artist) (French, 1849 - 1928)

CultureFrench

Dateca. 1880

MediumAlbumen print from collodion negative

Dimensionsimage: 6 1/4 × 4 5/8 in. (15.9 × 11.7 cm)
Overall, Support: 8 × 6 in. (20.3 × 15.2 cm)
Overall, Mat: 20 × 16 in. (50.8 × 40.6 cm)
Overall, Frame (estimated): 21 1/4 × 17 1/4 × 1 1/4 in. (54 × 43.8 × 3.2 cm)

InscribedDepicts the negative number A. 9. in the br of image (on the negative), Neg# a 9, and some markings in graphite at the bottom edges of the mount. The marking A. 9. appears again in graphite, verso.

Credit LineGift of Susan and Paul Hirschbiel

Object number2019.19.8

On View

Chrysler Museum of Art, Gallery 228

DescriptionDepicts women leaning against trees.
Label TextBlaise Adolphe Giraudon, editor [“Giraudon’s artist”] French, 1849–1928 Untitled (Woman with crescent sickle),ca. 1880s Albumen print from collodion negative Gift of Susan and Paul Hirschbiel 2019.19.8 Blaise Adolphe Giraudon was a Parisian editor who sold “studies for artists” made from negatives of now-unidentified photographers.At the time, a favorite subject for artists was the planting, reaping, and harvesting of grain.“Giraudon’s artist” (as the photographer has been dubbed) moved close to the resting girl, whose inviting gaze contrasts with her pruning sickle, which today evokes worker unrest—absent from idealized views. ProvenanceGalerie Baudoin LeBon, Paris, to Charles Isaacs, NYC; Isaacs to Susan and Paul Hirschbiel, 10/23/1999; gifted to the Chrysler Museum of Art, 2019.Exhibition History"New Frames of Reference: Early French Photographers at Home and Abroad," Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Va, gallery 228, September 5, 2024 - February 16, 2025.