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Creative Commons License
Creative Commons License
Creative Commons License
Portrait of Mrs. Francis Stanton Blake (Eugenia White Blake)
(18th and 19th Centuries )
One American expatriate has painted another. Stewart was the son of the noted collector William H. Stewart, an expatriate from Philadelphia who resided in Paris. He studied with the artists his father had come to know, Jean-Léon Gérôme, Eduardo Zamacoïs, and Raimundo de Madrazo, becoming a fashionable, cosmopolitan portrait and genre painter.
Stewart has posed Mrs. Blake, an American who lived in Menton on the French Riviera, against a Japanese screen.
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Provenance
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Acquired by Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Houston, Washington, D.C., 1969; given to Walters Art Museum, 1969.
Exhibitions
| 2008 | High Society: American Portraits of the Gilded Age. Bucerius Kunst Forum, Hamburg. |
| 1996 | To Arrest the Ravages of Time: Caring for Art at the Walters. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. |
Conservation
| Date | Description | Narrative |
|---|---|---|
| 10/1/1971 | Treatment | cleaned; mounted |
| 12/16/1974 | Treatment | loss compensation |
Geographies
France, Paris (Place of Origin)
Measurements
H: 78 3/4 x W: 44 1/4 in. (200 x 112.4 cm); Framed: H: 83 1/4 x W: 49 x 2 3/8 in. (211.46 x 124.46 x 6.03 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Houston, 1969
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
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In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
37.2465