Collection Highlights
Parade on Broadway for McKinley & Hobart
Date:
1896
Object Number:
PR.008.1
Medium:
Photograph
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Comtesse de Lafayette (1634-1693)
Object Number:
1952.379
Date:
ca. 1665
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall: 16 1/4 x 14 1/8 in. ( 41.3 x 35.9 cm )
Marks:
inscription: on back: "Marie de Lafayette / Pierre Mignard / 1667"
Gallery Label:
Marie Madeleine Pioche de La Vergne was a novelist and a hostess of fashionable salons in Paris. "La Princesse de Clèves" (1678) was her most important book. She married François Motier, an ancestor of General Lafayette, in 1655.
Credit Line:
Bequest of A. E. Gallatin
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
