Friday, August 22, 2025

Adolf De Meyer

Adolf De Meyer
Portrait of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney
ca. 1913
platinum print
Archives of American Art, Washington DC


Adolf De Meyer
Portrait of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney
ca. 1913
platinum print
Archives of American Art, Washington DC

Adolf De Meyer
Portrait of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney
ca. 1913
platinum print
Archives of American Art, Washington DC

Adolf De Meyer
Portrait of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney
ca. 1913
platinum print
Archives of American Art, Washington DC

Adolf De Meyer
Portrait of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney
ca. 1913
platinum print
Archives of American Art, Washington DC

Adolf De Meyer
Portrait of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney
ca. 1913
platinum print
Archives of American Art, Washington DC

Adolf De Meyer
Vaslav Nijinsky in the Ballets Russes
production of L'Après-midi d'un Faune

1912
palladium print
Princeton University Art Museum
 
Adolf De Meyer
Vaslav Nijinsky in the Ballets Russes
production of L'Après-midi d'un Faune

1912
palladium print
Princeton University Art Museum

Adolf De Meyer
Vaslav Nijinsky in the Ballets Russes
production of L'Après-midi d'un Faune

Nijinsky-
1912
palladium print
Princeton University Art Museum

Adolf De Meyer
Vaslav Nijinsky in the Ballets Russes
production of L'Après-midi d'un Faune

1912
palladium print
Princeton University Art Museum

Adolf De Meyer
Vaslav Nijinsky in the Ballets Russes
production of L'Après-midi d'un Faune

1912
palladium print
Princeton University Art Museum

Adolf De Meyer
Maenad in the Ballets Russes
production of L'Après-midi d'un Faune

1912
palladium print
Princeton University Art Museum

Adolf De Meyer
Evening Gown
(fashion shot for French Vogue)
1918
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Adolf De Meyer
Tunic and Skirt
(fashion shot for French Vogue)
1918
gelatin silver print
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Clarence H. White
Portrait of Adolf De Meyer
ca. 1911-12
platinum print
Princeton University Art Museum

Clarence H. White
Portrait of Adolf De Meyer
ca. 1912
platinum print
Princeton University Art Museum

from Metamorphoses [Medea continues her invocation]

By charmes I make the calme Seas rough, and make the rough Seas plaine,
And from the bowels of the Earth both stones and trees doe draw.
Whole woods and Forestes I remove: I make the Mountaines shake,
And even the Earth it selfe to grone and fearfully to quake.
I call up dead men from their graves: and thee O lightsome Moone
I darken oft, though beaten brasse abate thy perill soone.
Our Sorcerie dimmes the Morning faire, and darkes the Sun at Noone.
The flaming breath of firie Bulles ye quenched for my sake
And caused their unwieldie neckes the bended yoke to take.
Among the Earthbred brothers you a mortall war did set,
And brought a sleepe the Dragon fell whose eyes were never shet.
By meanes whereof deceiving him that had the golden fleece
In charge to keepe, you sent it thence by Jason into Greece.
Now have I neede of herbes that can by vertue of their juice
To flowring prime of lustie youth old withred age reduce.
I am assurde ye will it graunt. For not in vaine have shone
These twincling starres, ne yet in vaine this Chariot all alone
By draught of Dragons hither comes. With that was fro the Skie
A Chariot softly glaunced downe, and stayed hard thereby.

– Ovid (43 BC-AD 17), translated by Arthur Golding (1567)