Philippe de Montebello

Yousuf Karsh  (Canadian (born Armenia), Mardin 1908–2002 Boston, Massachusetts)

Date:
1980
Medium:
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions:
Image: 35.5 x 26.9 cm (14 x 10 9/16 in.)
Classification:
Photographs
Credit Line:
Gift of Philippe and Edith de Montebello, 2004
Accession Number:
2004.499.2
Rights and Reproduction:
© Yousuf Karsh
  • Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings

    Inscription: Signed in ink below image, recto BL; stamped in ink on verso: "No. 26 [inscribed] // (c) KARSH, OTTAWA, 1980"

  • Provenance

    Philippe de Montebello; the artist

  • Notes

    Statue depicted:

    Standing Buddha, Gupta period (ca. 319-500), 5th century

    Uttar Pradesh, Mathura India

    Mottled red sandstone

    Purchase, Enid A. Haupt Gift, 1979

    1979.6

    The Metropolitan Museum of Art

190038928

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