FEDOR ENCKE (GERMAN 1851-1926)
Portrait of a Young Black Woman, 1877
1877
oil on canvas
35.5 x 28 cm (14 x 11 in.)
signed, dated, and inscribed N.Y upper right; dedicated on verso
PROVENANCE
Gift of the artist to Frau Hedwig Stieglitz, mother of photographer Alfred Stieglitz, December 1877 (Encke had lived with the family in New York in winter of 1877)