Miniature of Mabel Morrison

1866

Not on view

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).

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Provenance

Title: Miniature of Mabel Morrison
Artist: Charles Lepec (French, Paris 1830–after 1888)
Artist: Frame by Plácido Zuloaga (Spanish, Madrid 1834–1910)
Date: 1866
Culture: French, Paris
Medium: Enamel on copper; Damascened iron frame inlaid with gold and silver; silk velvet.
Dimensions: Framed (confirmed): 5 7/8 × 5 × 1/2 in. (14.9 × 12.7 × 1.3 cm);
Plaque (visible, confirmed): 3 7/8 × 3 1/8 in. (9.8 × 7.9 cm)
Classifications: Enamels, Miniatures
Credit Line: Gift of Olivier Hurstel and Martin Levy, 2018
Object Number: 2018.74
Curatorial Department: European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

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