Louise Tiffany, Reading

Louis C. Tiffany American

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Here Tiffany depicted his second wife, Louise, reading on a chaise in his top-floor studio at the 72nd Street and Madison Avenue house, with clusters of three columns and a grand piano in the background. Tufted upholstery in a deep green with gray-blue and greenish yellow velvet pillows are sumptuously rendered in this delicate pastel, a medium that displays Tiffany's dexterity as an artist.

Louise Tiffany, Reading, Louis C. Tiffany (American, New York 1848–1933 New York), Pastel on buff colored wove paper, American

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Louise Tiffany, Reading, Louis C. Tiffany (American, New York 1848–1933 New York), Pastel on buff colored wove paper, American
Louise Tiffany, Reading, Louis C. Tiffany (American, New York 1848–1933 New York), Pastel on buff colored wove paper, American
Louise Tiffany, Reading, Louis C. Tiffany (American, New York 1848–1933 New York), Pastel on buff colored wove paper, American

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