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Titles
Only one title has been suggested:
- 'Head of Teresa Cerutti' (1980, YMSM). 1
Description
Described by the sitter as 'just my head, in profile, never completed'; she thought it 'did not look like me, but like my aunt in Italy.' 2
Sitter
Teresa Cerutti as 'Salome', photograph 1900
The Italian artist and singer Teresa Cerutti (d. 1945). On 26 May 1910 she married Will Simmons (1884-1949), son of the mural painter Edward Emerson Simmons (1852-1931), who took over Whistler's Parisian studio after 1903. She was known as Teresa Cerutti-Simmons. She died in 1945. 3
Notes:
1: YMSM 1980 [more] (cat. no. 509).
2: Cerutti, Teresa, An Intimate View of James McNeill Whistler (t. s., n.d.), p. 18; mss pp. 10-12, copy in GUL.
3: Askart website at http://www.askart.com. The Billboard, 22 December 1945, vol. 57, no. 21, in American Radio History website at http://www.americanradiohistory.com (acc. 2016). 'BOHEMIAN WEDDING IN PARIS. William Simmons, American Painter, Marries the Dancer Cerutti', New York Times, New York, 29 May 1910.
Last updated: 3rd April 2020 by Margaret
