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Frederick MacMonnies
Date: 1904
Credit Line: Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Collection
Object number: 1999.88
Text Entries: Regally arrayed in white lace with a feathered chapeau, Mabel Conkling (1871-1966) stands in front of the extraordinary blue-green tapestries found in MacMonnies' Giverny studio. Conkling and her husband David Paul Conkling (1871-1926) were students of the sculptor-turned-artist and were frequent guests at Le Moutier. Presumably commissioned by the couple, since it remained in the Conkling family, the painting required fourteen sittings for completion-an implication of MacMonnies' desire for perfection in his art. Despite family legend that the portrait was painted in MacMonnies' New York studio in Macdougal Alley, Greenwich Village, records show that the portrait was painted in July and August of 1904 in Giverny.