Frieda Schiff (1876–1958), Later Mrs. Felix M. Warburg
Zorn used lively strokes of pink to create a sense of movement and vivacity in this portrait of Frieda Schiff, the daughter of a New York banker. The Schiffs were among the numerous Jewish Gilded Age patrons connected to Zorn through his wife, Emma Lamm, who was born into a Jewish family in Sweden. Zorn painted eighteen-year-old Frieda during her visit to Paris in the spring of 1894, just weeks after she met her future husband, the budding financier Felix Warburg. As a young child, she had already been depicted alongside her brother Mortimer in a marble relief by the sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens, a version of which is in The Met collection (05.15.3).
Artwork Details
- Title: Frieda Schiff (1876–1958), Later Mrs. Felix M. Warburg
- Artist: Anders Zorn (Swedish, Mora 1860–1920 Mora)
- Date: 1894
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Dimensions: Overall: 39 3/4 x 30 in. (101 x 76.2 cm)
- Classification: Paintings
- Credit Line: Bequest of Carola Warburg Rothschild, 1987
- Object Number: 1988.72
- Curatorial Department: European Paintings
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