Painting

Title:

Ellen Tuck French

Object Name:

Painting

Object ID:

1983.012

Creator:

Troccoli, Giovanni Battista (1882-1940)Artist

Date:

1916

Description:

Painting. Portrait of Ellen Tuck French (1838-1915), by Giovanni B. Troccoli (1882-1940), 1916. Oil on canvas. Three-quarter length portrait of a woman seated on a bench. Sitter has red hair and blue eyes. She is wearing drop-pearl earrings, green dress with lace neckline, small bunch of red flowers on bodice, white lace cuffs, and a bracelet on each arm. She holds a book on her lap and a bookmark in her right hand. Bench in middle ground has floral-upholstered pillows and a book with red spine to the left of sitter. Patterned curtain swept back to right and seascape view in the background with blue sky and clouds. Signed lower left: "Copy G.B. Troccoli Dec 1916". Paper label ink inscription: stretcher top member: "Copy / Ellen French / Mother of Ellen French Fitzsimmons / gr. mother of W.H.V." (William H. Vanderbilt) Additional paper label: "ELLEN TUCK FRENCH / WIFE OF FRANCIS ORMOND FRENCH / MOTHER OF AMOS TUCK FRENCH, ELIZABETH / RICHARDSON FRENCH AND ELLEN FRENCH / DAUGTHER OF AMOS TUCK 1810-1879 / SISTER OF EDWARD TUCK AND ABBY TUCK." Unframed.

Material:

Textile
Canvas

Dimensions:

H-38 W-48 inches

Provenance:

Ellen Tuck French was William Henry Vanderbilt's, maternal grandmother.

Credit Line:

Bequest of William Henry Vanderbilt

People:

Vanderbilt, William Henry (1901-1981), Troccoli, Giovanni Battista (1882-1940), French, Ellen Tuck (1838-1915)

Subjects:

French, Ellen Tuck, Portrait paintings, Portraits, Seascapes