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Masquerade Ball

1909
Not on view
Elaborate costume balls were popular among wealthy Americans at the turn of the twentieth century. Madrazo painted this scene in 1909 for steel magnate Elbert H. Gary, who appears at right, flanked by his wife Emma, in blue, and the artist’s wife María. Madrazo looks on from the adjacent table. The setting was long identified as the Ritz Hotel in Paris, where the Garys stayed in 1908, but the room is based on a greenhouse in the mansion of Mexican diplomat Manuel de Yturbe y del Villar, in one of the city’s poshest neighborhoods, where Madrazo attended parties.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Masquerade Ball
  • Artist: Raimundo de Madrazo y Garreta (Spanish (born Italy), Rome 1841–1920 Versailles)
  • Date: 1909
  • Medium: Oil on canvas
  • Dimensions: 35 x 47 in. (88.9 x 119.4 cm)
  • Classification: Paintings
  • Credit Line: Bequest of Emma T. Gary, 1934
  • Object Number: 37.20.3
  • Curatorial Department: European Paintings

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