Mercedes de Cordoba (Profile)
The striking features of Mercedes de Cordoba—a tall, slender Spanish mezzosoprano who danced and played the piano—inspired several portraits by Steichen and other members of the Photo-Secession. In Paris, Steichen introduced her to the American modernist painter Arthur B. Carles, whom she married in 1909 and with whom she had a daughter, Mercedes Matter, an abstract painter who founded the New York Studio School in Greenwich Village.
Artwork Details
- Title: Mercedes de Cordoba (Profile)
- Artist: Edward J. Steichen (American (born Luxembourg), Bivange 1879–1973 West Redding, Connecticut)
- Date: 1904
- Medium: Direct carbon print
- Dimensions: 31.5 x 25.8 cm (12 3/8 x 10 3/16 in.)
- Classification: Photographs
- Credit Line: Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1933
- Object Number: 33.43.3
- Rights and Reproduction: © 2025 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
- Curatorial Department: Photographs
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