Mother and Son

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Artist Cecilia Beaux (American, 1855–1942)American, 1855–1942

CultureAmerican

Titles

Mother and Son
Mrs. Beauveau Borie and Adolphe Borie

Date1896

MediumOil on canvas

DimensionsCanvas: 57 1/4 × 40 in. (145.4 × 101.6 cm)
Frame: 68 1/2 × 52 1/4 × 3 in. (174 × 132.7 × 7.6 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Ann G. Trammell in memory of W. Bryan Trammell, Jr.

Object number2024.996

Current Location

The Audrey Jones Beck Building

109 Long & Sarofim Gallery

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Department

American Art

Object Type

PAINTING

ProvenanceMr. and Mrs. Beauveau Borie, Philadelphia, 1896-1940; Peter Borie, New York, 1940; [Richard York Gallery, New York]; Amon Carter Museum, 1985; [Christie’s New York, 4 December 2003, lot 53]; Private Collection, US, until 2024; [Christie's New York, Private Sales, 2024]; purchased by MFAH, 2024.
Exhibition HistoryAn Exhibition of Paintings by Miss Cecilia Beaux, Boston: St. Boltolph Club and New York: American Art Galleries, November 29 – December 31, 1887, no. 8.

Decennial International Exhibition of Fine Arts, 1890-1900, Paris: Grand Palais, Exposition Universelle de 1900, no. 117.

Exhibition of Paintings by Cecilia Beaux, New York: Academy of Arts and Letters, November 14, 1935 – May 2 1936, no. 10.

Cecilia Beaux and the Art of Portraiture, Washington D.C.: National Portrait Gallery, October 6, 1995-January 28, 1996, no. 18.

1900: Art at the Crossroads, London: Royal Academy of Arts and New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, January 16 – April 3, 2000, no. 101.

Published References “Art and Artists: Important Exhibition of Portraits at the St. Botolph Club”, Boston Advertiser, December 2, 1897. “Pictures by Cecilia Beaux,” The New York Times, December 22, 1897. Walton, W., “Cecilia Beaux,” Scribner’s Magazine, October 1, 1897, p. 479, no. 4. Bell, A., “The Work of Cecilia Beaux,” International Studio, October 1899, p. 216, no. 32. “Paintings at Paris,” Brooklyn Daily Eagle, July 29, 1900, p. 21. “American Paintings at the Paris Exposition,” Hartford Courant, August 9, 1900. Ayres, Linda et al, American Paintings: Selections from the Amon Carter Museum, Birmingham, AL: Oxmoor House, 1986, p. 78-79. Tappert, Tara Leigh, Cecilia Beaux and the Art of Portraiture, Washington, D.C.: National Portrait Gallery and the Smithsonian Institution Press, 1995, no. 18. Rosenblum, Robert, with Ann Dumas and Maryanne Stevens, 1900: Art at the Crossroads, Harry N. Abrams, 2000, p. 43, 174, no. 101. Carter, Alice, Cecilia Beaux: A Modern Painter in the Gilded Age, New York: Rizzoli International Publications, 2005, 49. Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

Recto: Signed lower left corner: Cecilia Beaux

Signed lower left

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