Miniature of Mabel Morrison

Charles Lepec French
 Frame by Plácido Zuloaga Spanish

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This portrait miniature, superbly executed in enamel, is a lovely example of a type very popular amongst middle- and moneyed-classes of Europe and the United States in the mid-nineteenth century. The sitter’s husband, English collector Alfred Morrison, was a champion of the artist, Lepec, and twenty years’ later commissioned a second enamel portrait of his wife (who seems hardly to have aged), also in The Met’s collection (2010.33). Morrison acquired an astonishingly large exhibition piece, an Italianate enameled vase and stand, also made by Lepec for display at the 1867 Paris Exposition Universelle, also in The Met’s collection (2004.452).

Miniature of Mabel Morrison, Charles Lepec (French, Paris 1830–after 1888), Enamel on copper; Damascened iron frame inlaid with gold and silver; silk velvet., French, Paris

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Miniature of Mabel Morrison, Charles Lepec (French, Paris 1830–after 1888), Enamel on copper; Damascened iron frame inlaid with gold and silver; silk velvet., French, Paris
Miniature of Mabel Morrison, Charles Lepec (French, Paris 1830–after 1888), Enamel on copper; Damascened iron frame inlaid with gold and silver; silk velvet., French, Paris

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