Category: portrait, Porträt, retrato, ritratto, portret, retrat, Bildnis

Polly Potter for costume party

Edward Jean Steichen :: Polly Potter wearing a hoopskirt costume with images of the sun running around the hem, and a tricorner hat with waist-length panels of lace for the annual costume party, the Red and Gold Ball, for the New York Junior League. Vogue magazine, 1926. | src and hi-res Getty Images

Fritzi Massary als M. Pompadour

Max Pollak :: Fritzi Massary (Madame Pompadour). Farbige Kaltnadelarbeit. Die Graphischen Künste. Gesellschaft für Vervielfältigende Kunst (editor), Wien, 1924. | src Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg

Actress Carol Stone, 1934

Edward Steichen :: Actress Carol Stone with dark hair combed in an upsweep style, wearing a white satin ruffled costume, reclining on a sofa, with one hand behind her head. Vanity Fair, 1934. | src and hi-res Getty Images

Lupe Velez, 1932

Edward J. Steichen :: Mexican actress Lupe Velez with hair parted in the center, sitting in the corner of a couch, with her legs on the it, embracing herself, looking with a direct stare. Published in Vanity Fair, 1932. | src and hi-res Getty Images

Genevieve Tobin, Vogue, 1929

Edward Jean Steichen :: Actress Genevieve Tobin seated, wearing a sleeveless square-necked dark dress, holding a West Highland Terrier for the play «Fifty Million Frenchmen». Published in Vogue magazine, 1929. | src and hi-res Getty Images