Collection Highlights
Armchair
Date:
1856-1857
Object Number:
1857.11
Medium:
Oak
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Luce Center
Constance and Maud Rives
Object Number:
1905.210
Date:
1893
Medium:
Watercolor on ivory
Dimensions:
Overall: 5 1/4 x 3 7/8 in. ( 13.3 x 9.8 cm )
Marks:
inscribed on cardboard backing: "Misses Rives/Paillet/6 Bd de Clichy/Paris"
signed and dated: left side: "Paillet/1893"
Gallery Label:
Constance Evelyn and Maud Antonia were twin daughters born in 1855 at "Carnwath," Duchess County, New York, to Francis Robert Rives (1822-91) and Matilda Antonia (Barclay) Rives (1824-88). Their father was a lawyer in New York. Constance Rives married John Borland on June 24, 1884; her husband died in Washington, D.C. in 1893. Maud Rives became the wife of Walker Breese Smith on May 23, 1882. Maud Smith died at Newport, R.I., in 1923; her sister Constance died at Gloucester, Mass., in 1914.
Credit Line:
Gift of the Estate of Peter Marié
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
