Marguerite Agniel supporting her weight with her hands on a chair, with legs outstretched and toes on the floor.

Date:: 1929

Reference:: 540206i

Part of:: The Fallaize Collection.

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Collection contents

The Fallaize Collection.
- Marguerite Agniel.
  - Marguerite Agniel supporting her weight with her hands on a chair, with legs outstretched and toes on the floor.540206i

About this work

Also known as

Previous title, replaced September 2022: Marguerite Agniel posing leaning on the back of a chair wearing a revealing silver two-piece costume and matching turban, on a rug, in a photographic studio.

Description

Agniel is also seen, in the same costume, in 539793i-539795i

Publication/Creation

New York City ([48th Street and Broadway]) : De Mirjian Studios, 1929.

Physical description

1 photograph : photoprint

Contributors

Fallaize, Edwin Nichol, 1877-1957former owner

Lettering

The courtesy of credit is requested - Thank you. De Mirjian Studios Bears number: 19 Accompanying typewritten text describes the benefits of this exercise The studio details are rubber-stamped on the verso and embossed into the print

Notes

This work is untitled: the title has been supplied by the cataloguer.

References note

Reproduced: M. Agniel, The art of the body, London, 1931, Plate XIII, f.p.26, "Dipping" and pushing up between the arms of a chair

Reference

Wellcome Collection 540206i

Ownership note

Originally collected by British anthropologist Edwin Nichol Fallaize (1877-1957). Purchased by Capt. L.W.G. Malcolm in 1934, on behalf of Sir Henry Solomon Wellcome, for the price of £25. From a letter in the Wellcome archives dated 16th December 1934.