Père Couturier

Recto of mount: drystamped, lower right [upside down, cropped at lower edge]: S E / USE EITHER SIDE. Verso of mount: signed and stamped in black ink, lower center [encircled]: Irving Penn / IRVING PENN; inscribed in brown ink, upper right: BOOK PRINT [struck through] / 3 ['3' inscribed over first of 3 start-shaped stamp marks in black ink]; in graphite, upper right: SP.; stamped in black ink and inscribed in graphite, upper left: REF. 1264; inscribed in black ink, upper center [in rectangular border]: PÈRE COUTURIER / PARIS, JULY 26, 1948; stamped in black ink, upper center: PENN; inscribed in black ink, upper center: COUTURIER; stamped in black ink, center: COPYRIGHT / NOT TO BE REPRODUCED WITHOUT / WRITTEN PERMISSION FROM / THE CONDÉ NAST PUBLICATIONS, INC.; stamped in black ink, center: PHOTOGRAPH / BY / PENN; stamped and inscribed in black ink, center: PHOTOGRAPH BY IRVING PENN / Copyright © 1949 by / THE CONDE NASTE PUBLICATIONS INC. / Not to be reproduced without / written permission of the / copyright owner.; stamped in black ink and inscribed in graphite, lower right: SIGNED, SILVER PRINTS OF / THIS NEGATIVE NOT EXCEEDING 31.; inscribed in black ink, lower right [adjacent to artist's signature]: Print made c. 1948. / I.P.; inscribed in graphite, center right [in column formation between arrows pointing up and down]: 10" / 10 1/2" / 9 1/2" / 9" / 5" / 6" / 5 1/2"; inscribed in graphite, center left [struck through, encircled]: S s neg; inscribed in graphite, lower left [in column formation with lines at left and right]: 45+ / 50 / 55 / 82+ / 87 / 92 / [illegible - cropped at bottom edge].