PORTRAIT OF MRS. CLOSE WITH ADELAIDE AND ELEANOR CLOSE
Creator(s): August Benziger (Painter)
Currently in storage
About this object
A group portrait of Marjorie Merriweather Post as Mrs. Edward Close with her two daughters Adelaide and Eleanor Close. Post is seated at the right wearing a broad brimmed hat and a ruffled off-white dress decorated with pale pink ribbons (See 48.41). She holds a parasol in her left hand, and has a ball of yarn in her lap with an unfinished piece of knitting. The two girls are to her right. They wear large bows in their hair and matching off-white dresses with pink sashes. They hold garlands of flowers. The younger girl, Eleanor, is seated at the bottom of the painting with her feet crossed. She holds a dog in her arms, his forepaws are on her lap. The older girl, Adelaide, is standing with her mother's hand on her right shoulder. In a landscape setting with dark foliage. Marjorie Post sits on a stone ledge with pilasters. To the lower right is the head and shoulders of a hound dog.
- Object name:
- PORTRAIT OF MRS. CLOSE WITH ADELAIDE AND ELEANOR CLOSE
- Made from:
- Oil on canvas
- Made in:
- Switzerland
- Date made:
- 1918
- Size:
- Framed: 92 × 67 in. (233.7 × 170.2 cm) Unframed: 79 1/2 × 54 in. (201.9 × 137.2 cm)
Detailed information for this item
- Catalog number:
- 51.145
- Class:
- PAINTING
- Signature marks:
- SIGNATURE; DATE A. Benziger 1918 [Lower left corner]
- Credit line:
- Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973