Titles

Possible titles include:

• 'Ivoire et or: Portrait de Madame V . . . ' (1902, Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts). 1
• 'Ivoire et or: Portrait de Madame Vanderbilt' (1980, YMSM). 2

'Ivoire et or: Portrait de Madame Vanderbilt' is the preferred title.

Description

Ivoire et or: Portrait de Madame Vanderbilt, private collection

A head and bust portrait of a woman, in oval, vertical, format. She is seen in slight three-quarter view, to left, against a dark background. She has dark curly hair parted at left and clustering over her forehead. She wears a dark cloak with a broad upstanding gauze or lace frill around the neck. Her evening dress is cut low over her breast and she wears a necklace.

Sitter

Edith Vanderbilt and child, photograph, http://www.biltmore.com

Edith Stuyvesant Vanderbilt (1873-1958), née Edith Stuyvesant Dresser. She married George Washington Vanderbilt (1862-1914) in 1898 (see Portrait of George W. Vanderbilt [YMSM 481]). After his death she married Senator P. G. Gerry (1879-1957) of Providence, RI.