La Cigale or Odalesque?

**Emma Justine Farnsworth** :: La Cigale, 1899; photogravure in blue mounted on light gray wove paper.
From : American Pictorial Photography, Series I | src National Gallery of Art

Controversial: is this image Berg’s or Farnsworth’s?

**Charles I. Berg** (American, 1856-1926) :: Odalisque, circa 1897. Photogravure. Camera Notes Vol. 3 No. 3. | The Art of Photogravure

**Charles I. Berg** (American, 1856–1926) :: Odalesque (sic), No. 17 from the portfolio “American Pictorial Photography, Series I” (1899); edition 146/150 | AIC · Art Institute Chicago

This has not been an involuntary mistake, the images had been credited as there were in their respective sources. But there is further to be noticed, as you can see, the image below look more like one of Farnsworth in style and motive.

(***) credits on source is as follows :

Charles I. Berg : Odalesque, 1899
series Title : American Pictorial Photography, Series I
Medium : photogravure in red mounted on green wove paper

Index : American Pictorial Photography, Series I (1899) Published for ‘Camera Notes’ by the Publication Committee of the Camera Club (New York)

Plate 16 : La Cigale …………….. by Emma J. Farnsworth

Plate 17 : Odalesque ………….. by Charles I. Berg

Bearing in mind the photographers’ styles and motives it is highly probable that the plates had been miscredited at the National Gallery of Art. We reckon the last but one image in this post is plate number 16 (La Cigale / Farnsworth); and the other images correspond to plate number 17 : ‘Odalesque’ by Charles Berg.

Anyway, we are not certain about it, but hope that you have enjoyed the images.

La Cigale by Frank Eugene

**Frank Eugene ~** La Cigale. Photogravure. Published in Camera Work, 1904 | src The Cleveland Museum of Art

**Frank Eugene** ~ La Cigale, No. 3 from the portfolio “American Pictorial Photography, Series II” (1901) | src AIC

**Frank Eugene ~** La Cigale. From : Camera Notes, Vol 3 No 4, 1900. | src Le Monde Blog (broken link)

**Frank Eugene ~** La Cigale, 1898. Photogravure. The Alfred Stieglitz Collection. | src Art Institute Chicago

**Frank Eugene ~** La Cigale, 1898. Platinum print. | src Art Institute Chicago

**Frank Eugene ~** La Cigale, 1901. Photogravure. The Camera Club of New York | src MoMA

No further words to explain ourselves; as you guess we are so much in love with this image. In order to pay a kind of homage and for the delight of our / your eyes, we tried to compile every single image available of this beautiful masterpiece.

**Frank Eugene ~** La Cigale, 1898 (negative); 1904 (photogravure) | source Philadelphia Museum of Art

If you happen to know any other rendition of it do not hesitate and drop a line, we will be so happy to add it to this post. Thank you and enjoy!