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Cecilia BeauxWW-1911-162073

1911·Oil on canvas·31 × 21 in. (78.7 × 53.3 cm)

Purchase, Marguerite and Frank A. Cosgrove Jr. Fund and Jonathan L. Cohen Gift, 2019

Catalogue

Year: 1911
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 31 × 21 in. (78.7 × 53.3 cm)
Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Artist: Cecilia Beaux

Artist

Cecilia Beaux

Painting

Eliza Cecilia Beaux was an American artist and the first woman to teach art at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Known for her elegant and sensitive portraits of friends, relatives, and Gilded Age patrons, Beaux painted many famous subjects including First Lady Edith Roosevelt, Admiral Sir David Beatty and Georges Clemenceau.

Philadelphia, PA, USA

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