Euphemia White Van Rensselaer (1816-1888), (painting)

Smithsonian American Art Museum and its Renwick Gallery

Object Details

painter
Healy, George Peter Alexander 1813-1894
Subject
Van Rensselaer, Euphemia White
Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1975.
Gardner & Feld, "American Ptgs," Metropolitan Museum,. Vol. I, 1965, pg. 272.
Caldwell, John, and Oswaldo Rodriguez Roque, "American Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Volume I: A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born by 1815," New York, NY: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1994, pg. 572.
Image on file.
Coll. Catalog, "American Paintings," Vol. I, pg. 271.
Caldwell, John, and Oswaldo Rodriguez Roque, "American Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Volume I: A Catalogue of Works by Artists Born by 1815," New York, NY: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1994, pg. 573.
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Summary
Portrait of Euphemia White Van Rensselaer wearing a black velvet jacket, velvet and satin stole, and a black watered-silk skirt. On her head she wears a bonnet trimmed with bird of paradise feathers, flowers and satin ribbon. She stand against a background depicting the Roman Campagna with the ruins of Claudian aqueduct in the distance.
1842
Control number
IAP 36120224
Type
Paintings
Medium
Oil on canvas
Owner/Location
Metropolitan Museum of Art 5th Avenue at 82nd Street New York New York 10028 Accession Number: 23.102
Art Inventories Catalog, Smithsonian American Art Museums
Topic
Portrait female--Knee length
Landscape--Italy
Architecture--Ruins--Claudian Aqueduct
Record ID
siris_ari_42013
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