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Maker(s):Sorolla y Bastida, Joaquin
Culture:Spanish (1863 - 1923)
Title:Juliana Armour Ferguson
Date Made:1909
Type:Painting
Materials:oil on canvas
Place Made:Spain
Measurements:Frame: 86 1/4 in x 48 1/4 in x 2 3/4 in; 219.1 cm x 122.6 cm x 7 cm; stretcher: 200.66 cm x 104.14 cm; 79 in x 41 in
Narrative Inscription:  signed and dated at lower right: J Sorolla y Bastida 1919[?] titled at upper right: JULIANA
Accession Number:  SC 1983.1
Credit Line:Gift of Juliana Painter, class of 1947
Museum Collection:  Smith College Museum of Art
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Currently on view

Description:
woman; interior; portrait; costume/uniform; furniture

Label Text:
Heiress to the Armour & Company meatpacking fortune, art collector, and mother of five children, Juliana Armour Ferguson was a woman worth celebrating. In this portrait, she is pictured amongst a selection of her possessions in her grand, Renaissance-style castle on the wealthy North Shore of Long Island, New York. Some of the ancient objects pictured on Ferguson’s bureau are actually ones that have replicas similar to those on view in the museum’s ancient gallery, namely the Shabti (Egyptian funerary) figures. Ferguson’s portrait conveys her status, wealth, and cultivated taste by picturing her standing among, and holding with an ungloved hand, her priceless possessions.

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