[Nude youth with lyre] – Antique Wall Art
![[Nude youth with lyre], [ca. 1907] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/66/6620e16c5d4c-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: [Nude youth with lyre], preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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[Nude youth with lyre]
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A young male nude holds a lyre, the classical instrument linked to Apollo and Greek song, which places this ca. 1907 study within the tradition of figure photography that borrowed poses and props from ancient sculpture. The print is a platinum image with a gum overlay, a process favored by pictorialist photographers of the period for its soft tonal range and brushed, painterly surface. Such studies were usually staged as artistic figure work rather than portraits, so the sitter's identity is unrecorded and the photographer's aims are worth considering when viewing it.
| Created / published | [ca. 1907] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on 2 mounts : platinum with gum ; 9 3/4 x 7 3/4 in. |
| Genre | Platinum prints 1900-1910. |
| Subjects | Boys--1900-1910. Stringed instruments--1900-1910. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,136 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-164702 |
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