Carolus-Duran, 1890 - Mrs. William Astor (Caroline Webster Schermerhorn, 1831–1908) - fine art print

What does the The Metropolitan Museum of Art write about this work of art from the painter Carolus-Duran? (© Copyright - The Metropolitan Museum of Art - The Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Carolus-Duran was at the peak of his success as a society portraitist when he painted this likeness of the American banker's wife in Paris in 1890. The pose and the costume, with their strong suggestions of the seventeenth century, reflect the artist's early and continued admiration for Velázquez.

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The over 130 year-old piece of art Mrs. William Astor (Caroline Webster Schermerhorn, 1831–1908) was painted by the realist painter Carolus-Duran in 1890. The original was painted with the size: 83 1/2 x 42 1/4 in (212,1 x 107,3 cm). Oil on canvas was applied by the French painter as the medium of the artwork. This piece of art is included in the digital collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which is one of the world's largest and finest art museums, which includes more than two million works of art spanning five thousand years of world culture, from prehistory to the present and from every part of the globe.. With courtesy of - The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of R. Thornton Wilson and Orme Wilson, 1949 (license - public domain). : Gift of R. Thornton Wilson and Orme Wilson, 1949. On top of that, alignment is in portrait format and has a side ratio of 1 : 2, which means that the length is 50% shorter than the width. Carolus-Duran was a painter from France, whose artistic style was mainly Realism. The artist lived for a total of 80 years - born in the year 1837 in Lille and deceased in the year 1917 in Paris.

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