Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: The Museum Year 2012
The Acquisitions
Prints, Drawings, and Photographs: July 2011–June 2012
Last Hours of Peking (Smiling man with bird on stick)
January, 1949
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Sheet: 24.1 x 16.5 cm (9 1/2 x 6 1/2 in.)
Photograph, gelatin silver print
Classification: Photographs
Accession number: 2011.2435
Provenance/Ownership History: Ron Shaich, Brookline, MA; his gift to Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. (Accession Date: January 25, 2012)
Gift of Nancy and Ronald Shaich