Cleaning Day
Photograph
1915 (made)
1915 (made)
| Artist/Maker |
Photograph by Richard Polak, 'Cleaning Day', 1915
Object details
| Category | |
| Object type | |
| Title | Cleaning Day (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | |
| Brief description | Photograph by Richard Polak, 'Cleaning Day', 1915 |
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| Gallery label | Making It Up: Photographic Fictions
The source for this composition was a painting by Gerrit Dou of a woman washing pots and pans at a window. It even reproduces the conceit of the trompe-l’oeil frame within a frame, which recurs in the seventeenth-century Dutch artist’s work. While the original painting would have impressed viewers with its life-like precision, the photographic version is remarkable as a recreation of a painting.
Marta Weiss |
| Credit line | The Royal Photographic Society Collection at the V&A, acquired with the generous assistance of the National Lottery Heritage Fund and Art Fund. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | RPS.1247-2018 |
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| Record created | March 7, 2018 |
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