Photographed by Scott Wolff. Scanned from a slide. Color corrected by Pat Cagney.

Mrs. Lavinia M. Parcells Pike and Baby Mary Elizabeth

Artist Unknown

CultureAmerican

Dateca. 1830

MediumOil on canvas

DimensionsOverall: 33 7/8 x 27 3/4 in. (86 x 70.5 cm)
Overall, Frame: 43 1/16 x 36 3/8 x 3 in. (109.4 x 92.4 x 7.6 cm)

Credit LineGift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch

Object number76.53.14

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DescriptionThis is an oil on canvas painting mounted on panel of a mother and her daughter. The child is dressed in white with blue bows at her sleeves. She sits on the right arm of the chair her mother occupies. The child stares out of the painting while playing with her mother's gold chain. The Mother wears a high waisted black dress with long full black sleeves. There is a generous amount of lace at her cuffs, around her neck and draped over the shoulders. Her cap is also lace run though with a large yellow ribbon. Her jewelry consists of large silver earrings ( only the left one is visible), a gold wedding band set with a red stone, two gold bands on her right ring finger, a small brooch at her neckline and the gold chain which holds a watch and other trinkets. There is an opened window with a curtain draped across showing a bit of landscape in the background.

Label TextMrs. Lavinia M. Parcells Pike and Baby Mary Elizabeth, ca. 1830 American Oil on canvas Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch 76.53.14 ProvenanceMellina Studios, November 1959; sold to Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch, November 18, 1959; On loan to the Chrysler Museum, 1974-1976; Gift of Edgar William and Bernice Chrysler Garbisch to the Chrysler Museum of Art, 1976. Exhibition History"Three Hundred Years of American Art in the Chrysler Museum," Chrysler Museum at Norfolk, Va., March 1 - July 4, 1976. "Reopening of the Joan P. Brock Galleries," Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Va., Opening in March of 2008. Published ReferencesForeword by Walter P. Chrysler, Jr., preface by Clifford W. Schaefer, and introduction by Dennis R. Anderson, _48 Masterpieces from the Collection of Edgar William & Bernice Chrysler Garbisch_ (Norfolk, Va.: The Chrysler Museum, 1975), 46, plate 26. Dennis R. Anderson, _Three Hundred Years of American Art in the Chrysler Museum_, exh. cat., Norfolk, Va., 1975, 63. Martha N. Hagood and Jefferson C. Harrison, _American Art at the Chrysler Museum: Selected Paintings, Sculpture, and Drawings_ (Norfolk, Va.: Chrysler Museum of Art, 2005), 40, no. 16. ISBN: 0-940744-71-6