1948.15.4: Study for the Portrait of Mrs. Beauveau Borie and Her Son Adolphe

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1948.15.4

People

Cecilia Beaux, American (Philadelphia, PA 1855 - 1942 Philadelphia, PA)

Title

Study for the Portrait of Mrs. Beauveau Borie and Her Son Adolphe

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting

Date

1896

Places

Creation Place: North America, United States

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/229497

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on artist's board

Dimensions

23.2 x 14.3 cm (9 1/8 x 5 5/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: back of board, ink and graphite, in artist's hand: [in ink:] Mrs. Beauvau [sic] Borie / [in ink and graphite:] Son / [in graphite:] Adolph [sic] Borie / C.B.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

By descent from the artist to her nephew, Dr. Cecil K. Drinker; his gift to the Fogg Art Museum, 1948.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Dr. Cecil K. Drinker

Accession Year

1948

Object Number

1948.15.4

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Descriptions

Description

Adolphe Borie was a Pennsylvania portrait painter 1877-1934. The finished oil is at the Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, TX.

Publication History

• The Paintings and Drawings of Cecilia Beaux, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (Philadelphia, PA, 1955), p. 24
• Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., Virginia Anderson, and Kimberly Orcutt, ed., American Paintings at Harvard, Volume Two, Paintings, Drawings, Pastels and Stained Glass by Artists Born 1826-1856, Harvard Art Museums and Yale University Press (U.S.) (Cambridge, MA and New Haven, CT, 2008), p. 39, cat. no. 6

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