A striking gelatin silver print by Claude Cahun, born Lucy Schwob, capturing the French-Belgian writer and artist Henri Michaux with the photographer's characteristic psychological intensity. Cahun's lens transforms the portrait into something beyond mere documentation, revealing a brooding inner life through dramatic light and shadow. The image reflects Cahun's broader artistic practice of interrogating identity and the self, bringing the same probing gaze to her subject as she did to her celebrated self-portraits.