Detail from The Canal, Amsterdam, 1889, James McNeill Whistler, The Hunterian, University of Glasgow

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Ivoire et or: Portrait de Madame Vanderbilt

Titles

Possible titles include:

  • 'Ivoire et or: Portrait de Madame V . . . ' (1902, Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts). 1
  • 'Ivoire et or: Portrait de Madame Vanderbilt' (1980, YMSM). 2

'Ivoire et or: Portrait de Madame Vanderbilt' is the preferred title.

Description


                    Ivoire et or: Portrait de Madame Vanderbilt, private collection
Ivoire et or: Portrait de Madame Vanderbilt, private collection

A head and bust portrait of a woman, in oval, vertical, format. She is seen in slight three-quarter view, to left, against a dark background. She has dark curly hair parted at left and clustering over her forehead. She wears a dark cloak with a broad upstanding gauze or lace frill around the neck. Her evening dress is cut low over her breast and she wears a necklace.

Sitter


                    Edith Vanderbilt and child, photograph, http://www.biltmore.com
Edith Vanderbilt and child, photograph, http://www.biltmore.com

Edith Stuyvesant Vanderbilt (1873-1958) , née Edith Stuyvesant Dresser. She married George Washington Vanderbilt (1862-1914) in 1898 (see Portrait of George W. Vanderbilt [YMSM 481]). After his death she married Senator P. G. Gerry (1879-1957) of Providence, RI.

Notes:

1: Douzième Exposition, Ouvrages de Peintures, Sculpture, Dessin, Gravure, Architecture et Objets d'Art, Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Grand Palais, Paris, 1902 (cat. no. 1193).

2: YMSM 1980 [more] (cat. no. 515).

Last updated: 18th October 2020 by Margaret