An Ethiopian Chief
F. Holland Day
ca. 1897 · Platinum print · Photographs
The 1896 defeat of the Italians by Abyssinian Emperor Menelek II at Adowa in northern Ethiopia provided Day with the inspiration for a series of heroic figure studies entitled Menelek, Nubia, and variations of An Ethiopian. The exotically costumed and appointed model for these pictures was J. Alexandre Skeete, a strikingly handsome artist’s model and aspiring artist.
- Artist
- F. Holland Day
- Date
- ca. 1897
- Medium
- Platinum print
- Department
- Photographs
- Credit line
- Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1933
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