Marguerite Agniel leaning back with her arms by her side and holding her feet, whilst lifting her bum and torso off the ground.

De Mirjian Studios

Date:: 1929

Reference:: 540251i

Part of:: The Fallaize Collection.

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Collection contents

The Fallaize Collection.
- Marguerite Agniel.
  - Marguerite Agniel leaning back with her arms by her side and holding her feet, whilst lifting her bum and torso off the ground.540251i

About this work

Also known as

Previous title, replaced September 2022: Marguerite Agniel posing leaning back wearing a revealing silver two-piece costume and matching turban, on a rug, in a photographic studio. Photograph by J. de Mirjian, ca.1929.

Description

Agniel is also seen, in the same costume, in 539793i-539795i

Publication/Creation

New York City ([48th Street and Broadway]) : De Mirjian Studios, 1929.

Physical description

1 photograph : photoprint

Contributors

Lettering

The courtesy of credit is requested - Thank you. De Mirjian Studios Bears number: 33 Accompanying typewritten text describes the benefits of this exercise The studio details are rubber-stamped on the verso and embossed into the print

Notes

Photograph attributed to J. de Mirjian.

This work is untitled: the title has been supplied by the cataloguer.

References note

Reproduced: M. Agniel, The art of the body, London, 1931, Plate XXVI (a), f.p.51, Exercises for the neck

Reference

Wellcome Collection 540251i

Ownership note

Originally collected by British anthropologist Edwin Nichol Fallaize (1877-1957). Purchased by Capt. L.W.G. Malcolm in 1934, on behalf of Sir Henry Solomon Wellcome, for the price of £25. From a letter in the Wellcome archives dated 16th December 1934.