Mercedes de Cordoba (Profile)

Edward J. Steichen

1904 · Direct carbon print · Photographs

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.

Artist

Edward J. Steichen

Date

1904

Medium

Direct carbon print

Department

Photographs

Credit line

Alfred Stieglitz Collection, 1933