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| Mrs. William Astor (Caroline Webster Schermerhorn, 1831–1908) |
Artist:Carolus-Duran (Charles-Auguste-Émile Durant) (French, Lille 1837–1917 Paris)
Date:1890
Medium:Oil on canvas
Dimensions:83 1/2 x 42 1/4 in. (212.1 x 107.3 cm)
Classification:Paintings
Credit Line:Gift of R. Thornton Wilson and Orme Wilson, 1949
Carolus-Duran was at the peak of his success as a society portraitist when he painted this likeness of the American banker's wife in Paris in 1890. The pose and the costume, with their strong suggestions of the seventeenth century, reflect the artist's early and continued admiration for Velázquez.
Provenance
Mr. and Mrs. William Astor, New York (from 1890); the sitter's grandsons, R. Thornton Wilson and Orme Wilson, New York (until 1949)
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