![[GRANT, Ulysses S., Lieutenant General]. GUTEKUNST, Frederick (1831-1917), Photographer. Portrait photograph signed ("U.S. Grant Lt. Gen. U.S.A."), n.p. [Washington, D.C.], n.d. [just after 15 April 1865].](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2005/NYR/2005_NYR_01685_0108_000(110642).jpg?w=1)
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[GRANT, Ulysses S., Lieutenant General]. GUTEKUNST, Frederick (1831-1917), Photographer. Portrait photograph signed ("U.S. Grant Lt. Gen. U.S.A."), n.p. [Washington, D.C.], n.d. [just after 15 April 1865].
Albumen silver print, (9 3/16 x 6 7/16 in.) including original card mount, verso with printed label "From F. Gutekunst, Photographer, 712 Arech Street, Philad'a...," and with pencilled date "1865." Slight foxing at extreme edges, even toning, small tear to bottom margin reinforced, inscription pale.
U.S. GRANT, JUST AFTER APPOMATTOX AND LINCOLN'S DEATH, WITH A MOURNING RIBBON
A superbly detailed, large-format image, showing a serious, hollow-eyed General Grant just days after the surrender of Robert E. Lee at Appomattox and the assassination of the commander-in-chief, President Lincoln. Grant is shone from the waist up, in full uniform, three-starred epaulettes on the shoulders of his overcoat, gazing unflinchingly into the lens, his left hand partially inserted into the lapel of his waitscoat (in a pose very popular in 19th century military circles, emulating the stance of Napoleon Bonaparte in David's famous portrait, "Napoleon in his Study," painted in 1812). Visibly hanging from Grant's left arm is the long black ribbon of black crepe worn after Lincoln's assassination (see another version of the same portrait in Kunhardt and Kunhardt, Twenty Days, p.121).
RARE. Only two other large-format example of this portrait signed by Grant have been sold since 1975: one in the Joseph Laico Collection (Christie's East, 12 May 1999, lot 172, $7,000); another from the Forbes Collection (Christie's, 29 October 2002, lot 134, $9,500).
Albumen silver print, (9 3/16 x 6 7/16 in.) including original card mount, verso with printed label "From F. Gutekunst, Photographer, 712 Arech Street, Philad'a...," and with pencilled date "1865." Slight foxing at extreme edges, even toning, small tear to bottom margin reinforced, inscription pale.
U.S. GRANT, JUST AFTER APPOMATTOX AND LINCOLN'S DEATH, WITH A MOURNING RIBBON
A superbly detailed, large-format image, showing a serious, hollow-eyed General Grant just days after the surrender of Robert E. Lee at Appomattox and the assassination of the commander-in-chief, President Lincoln. Grant is shone from the waist up, in full uniform, three-starred epaulettes on the shoulders of his overcoat, gazing unflinchingly into the lens, his left hand partially inserted into the lapel of his waitscoat (in a pose very popular in 19th century military circles, emulating the stance of Napoleon Bonaparte in David's famous portrait, "Napoleon in his Study," painted in 1812). Visibly hanging from Grant's left arm is the long black ribbon of black crepe worn after Lincoln's assassination (see another version of the same portrait in Kunhardt and Kunhardt, Twenty Days, p.121).
RARE. Only two other large-format example of this portrait signed by Grant have been sold since 1975: one in the Joseph Laico Collection (Christie's East, 12 May 1999, lot 172, $7,000); another from the Forbes Collection (Christie's, 29 October 2002, lot 134, $9,500).