Rare New York portrait of Gustav Mahler
Portrait photograph in zinc etching process (vintage).
Vintage portrait photograph in zinc etching process, photograph 254 x 180 mm, rolled on black handmade paper support 462 x 323 mm. Matted and framed.
€ 6.500,00
Unique and rare portrait of Gustav Mahler as a concert conductor in New York: a vintage studio photograph from the atélier of A. Dupont, preserved in its large black handmade-paper support.
The bust portrait shows Mahler in profile with his head turned to the right, reducing the composition to a concentrated conductor's likeness of striking severity. It was created by the New York studio founded by Aimé Dupont, long-serving photographer to the Metropolitan Opera, continued after his illness and death by Etta Dupont, later joined by Albert Dupont. Executed during Mahler's American years, the portrait belongs to the brief but decisive New York period in which he moved between the Metropolitan Opera and the symphonic life of the city. As an image made in that setting, it preserves the public persona of Mahler at the moment when his authority as a conductor was reaching its final international culmination.
