Inscription: Signed (lower right): Zorn

the sitter, Mrs. John Crosby Brown, Orange, N.J. (until d. 1918); her daughter, Eliza Coe Moore, Cambridge, Mass. (1918–d. 1959)

THIS WORK MAY NOT BE LENT.

Emanuel Winternitz. Letter to Mrs. Edward Moore. February 24, 1945, identifies the instrument behind the sitter as a nineteenth-century mandolin from the Crosby Brown collection.

Emanuel Winternitz. "The Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments: Its Origin and Development." Metropolitan Museum Journal 3 (1970), pp. 337–38, fig. 1, remarks that the portrait was painted in Paris around 1900.

Katharine Baetjer. European Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art by Artists Born Before 1865: A Summary Catalogue. New York, 1995, p. 240, ill., as "Mrs. John Crosby Brown (Mary Elizabeth Adams, 1842–1918)".

William Hagans and Willow Hagans. Zorn in America: A Swedish Impressionist of the Gilded Age. Chicago, 2009, pp. 162, 357 n. 15, writes that it was "more than likely" painted during Zorn's second trip to Paris in 1900, noting a letter in the Zorn Museum Archives indicating that it was painted in that city.

This work may not be lent.