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Portrait #969
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Subject/Title:
| Mebane, Elizabeth Smith |
| Artist: | Zardo, A. |
| Date
Created: | 1929 |
| Owner/Location: | Private Collection |
| Frame Dimensions: | 6 1/2' x 4' |
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| Materials/Media: | Oil on canvas |
| Date Documented: | 20 October 2007 |
| Condition: | Excellent |
| Description: | An elegant full-length portrait of a young dark-haired woman standing in front of a chair with her left leg folded and resting on the chair seat. She is wearing a red dress with an uneven hemline; her left arm rests across the back of the chair; and her right hand grasps the right arm of the chair. There is a vase of flowers on a table to her right, and her white-stockinged right leg (with gold slipper) rests on what appears to be an animal skin rug. |
| History of Work: | Artist was from Florence, Italy - Portrait now owned by subject's niece. |
| Notes: | Subject born 8 April 1910- died 2 February 1967
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