Head of Christ, detail from the painting "Christ and the Rich Young Man", [s.d.]

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Photograph of the head of Christ, detail from the painting "Christ and the Rich Young Man", [s.d.]. Christ's face is shown in detail from the painting, his head inclined slightly to the right. A halo is gently implied by light and shadow around his hair. Picture file card reads: "Detail just as Christ is sayng 'Sell that thou hast and give to the poor'. Among the most nearly successful painters of the Saviour, Herr Hofmann may be safely reckoned. He is eminently the Christ painter of modern times and his numerous pictures form the wonderful ife are great favorites with the engravers and th religious sort of art-lovers".

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Title Head of Christ, detail from the painting "Christ and the Rich Young Man", [s.d.]

Subject Art -- Christian #1 (file heading), Jesus Christ (lcsh), religious facilities (adlf)

Tags OAI-PMH Harvest

Type images

Format 1 photograph : photoprint, b&w ; 26 x 21 cm. (aacr2), art (aat), photographic prints (aat), photographs (aat)

Source California Historical Society (contributing entity), California Historical Society Collection, 1860-1960 (collection), Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, 1860-1960 (subcollection)

Creator Hofmann, Heinrich Johann (artist)

Publisher University of Southern California. Libraries (digital)

Repository Email specol@lib.usc.edu

Repository Name USC Libraries Special Collections

Repository Location Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189

Rights Public Domain. Please credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library.

Copyright Public Domain. Please credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library.

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Permanent Link (DOI) https://doi.org/10.25549/chs-m18321

Identifier 8707 (accession number), CHS-8707 (call number), CHS-8707 (filename), chs-m265 (legacy collection record id), chs-c65-18292 (legacy record id), chs-m18321 (legacy record id)

IIIF ID [Document.IIIFV3ID]

DM Record ID 18292

Unique identifier UC113935

Legacy Identifier CHS-8707.tiff

Type Image

Internet Media Type image/tiff

Resolution 16.0 in × 20.0 in at 300dpi
40.7 cm × 50.8 cm at 300dpi

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Title Title Insurance and Trust and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection 1860-1960

Description The nearly 15,000 unique photographs of this collection contain the work of C.C. Pierce which cover the Los Angeles region city, street and architectural views, California Missions, Southwestern Native Americans, and turn-of-century Nevada, Arizona, and California. Pierce, active from 1886 to 1940, was one of the leading photographers of his day and amassed a collection of 15,000 images, including his own and those bought and copied from his contemporaries, George Wharton James and Charles Puck. The James collection contains over 2,000 images of portraits, customs, ceremonies, arts, and games of various groups of Southwestern Native Americans.

Date Created 1860/1960

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