Collection Highlights
Pierre Toussaint (ca. 1781-1853)
Date:
ca. 1825
Object Number:
1920.4
Medium:
Watercolor on ivory
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Profile Portrait of Maria Jeritza (1887-1982)
Object Number:
1990.1.72
Date:
1929
Medium:
Graphite on paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 6 3/8 x 4 7/16 in. ( 16.2 x 11.3 cm )
Marks:
signature and date: lower left: "Wm H. Walker / Feb 5/29"
inscription and date: lower right: "Maria Jeritza / 1929"
Inscriptions:
Signed and inscribed at lower left in graphite: "Wm H.Walker / Feb 5/29"; signed by sitter at lower right: "Maria Jeritza / 1929"
Description:
Portrait
Gallery Label:
An operatic soprano and reigning diva of the 1920s, the subject was a principal artist with the Metropolitan Opera in New York between 1921 and 1932. Critics called her "the Duse of Opera." Born in Moravia, she became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1943.
Credit Line:
Gift of the Family of William Henry Walker
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
