Freeman's: Fine American & European Paintings: Lot 67
CECILIA BEAUX, (AMERICAN 1855-1942), MRS. ROBERT CHAPIN AND DAUGHTER CHRISTINA
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CECILIA BEAUX
(american 1855-1942)
MRS. ROBERT CHAPIN AND DAUGHTER CHRISTINA
Signed with initials ''CB'' center right, oil paint and pencil traces on canvas
36 x 28 in. (91.4 x 71.1cm)
provenance:
Mrs. Chapin was the Great Grandmother of the present owner.
By family descent.
Private Collection, Pennsylvania.
exhibited:
National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC, ''Cecilia Beaux And The Art Of Portraiture'' October 6, 1995-January 26, 1996, Cat. No. 31 (illustrated)
National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC, ''Cecilia Beaux And The Art Of Portraiture'' October 6, 1995-January 26, 1996, Cat. No. 31 (illustrated)
literature:
''Background With Figures - Autobiography of Cecilia Beaux'' published by Houghton Mifflin Company 1930, pg. 223-224, (illustrated).
''Cecilia Beaux And The A literature:
''Background With Figures - Autobiography of Cecilia Beaux'' published by Houghton Mifflin Company 1930, pg. 223-224, (illustrated).
''Cecilia Beaux And The Art Of Portraiture'' by Tara Leigh Tappert, published for the National Portrait Gallery by the Smithsonian Institution Press, pg. 68-69, (illustrated).
note:
This work, painted in Tryingham, Massachusetts in 1901, depicts Adele Chapin née Le Bourgeois and her daughter, Christina, who had been born in October of the previous year. A Louisiana native, she had grown up on the family plantation, Belmont, and was introduced to her future husband, Robert Chapin, through her brother who knew him from Yale.
The Chapins led a somewhat peripatetic existence living at various times in New York City, Massachusetts, South Africa and London. It was in the latter city that the sitter met Cecilia Beaux. A cultivated individual who sought intellectual stimulation, Mrs. Chapin held dinner parties whose guests included John Singer Sargent, Mark Twain, Ambassador and Mrs. Joseph Choate and James McNeill Whistler; Cecilia Beaux was also frequently in attendance, with Chapin describing her as, "one of the most interesting of woman and a very dear friend."
