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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