Ernesta (Child with Nurse)

Cecilia BeauxWW-1894-162068

1894·oil paint·50 1/2 x 38 1/8 in. (128.3 x 96.8 cm)

Maria DeWitt Jesup Fund, 1965

Catalogue

Year: 1894
Medium: oil paint
Dimensions: 50 1/2 x 38 1/8 in. (128.3 x 96.8 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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