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Mrs. Edward Clark Potter (nee May Dumont)

1894
Not on view
French's occasional forays into painting and drawing include a group of sensitively rendered pastel portraits of family and friends. This half-length likeness of May Dumont Potter (1864–1937), wife of French's frequent sculpture collaborator Edward Clark Potter, presents the sitter in a fashionable turquoise dress with puffed-and-gathered sleeves and a fichu collar. French skillfully blended the colors, working in a loose painterly manner on a pale blue-gray woven paper, now faded to off-white. He presented the portrait to Edward Potter in 1894, perhaps a gift of friendship following a period of intense collaboration on monumental outdoor sculptures for the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago the previous year.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Mrs. Edward Clark Potter (nee May Dumont)
  • Artist: Daniel Chester French (American, Exeter, New Hampshire 1850–1931 Stockbridge, Massachusetts)
  • Date: 1894
  • Culture: American
  • Medium: Pastel on off-white wove paper
  • Dimensions: 18 x 24 in. (45.7 x 61 cm)
  • Credit Line: Gift of Fenton L. B. Brown, 1980
  • Object Number: 1980.513
  • Curatorial Department: The American Wing

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