Collection Highlights
Portrait of two girls
Date:
Object Number:
PR.012.1.326.Box12
Medium:
Ambrotype
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Jeannette Ovington (1863-1926)
Object Number:
1944.18
Date:
1887
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Framed: 38 × 38 3/4 × 6 in. (96.5 × 98.4 × 15.2 cm)
Unframed: 20 3/8 × 26 3/4 in. (51.8 × 67.9 cm)
Marks:
Signed and dated upper right: "G. P. A. Healy. 1887. Paris"
Gallery Label:
The subject was the daughter of Edward Judson Ovington (1832-1909), a member of a prominent Brooklyn family who founded Ovington Brothers in 1846, one of the oldest china importing firms in the country.
Credit Line:
Gift of the Estate of Ina Love Thursby, through Walter M. Brown
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
