Collection Highlights
Kerchief
ca. 1848
1941.103
Cotton
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Adelaide Milton de Groot (1876-1967)
Title
Adelaide Milton de Groot (1876-1967)
Date
1882
Medium
Black, white, and beige chalks and charcoal on brown paper
Dimensions
Overall: 28 3/8 x 21 in. ( 72.1 x 53.3 cm )
Description
Portrait
Credit Line
Gift of Adelaide Milton De Groot
Object Number
1941.1038
Marks
Signed: at lower right: "E. de Groot"
Gallery Label
The subject of this portrait was the younger of two daughters born to William and Elizabeth King (Hawley) de Groot of New York. She studied art in Paris and about 1920 began to collect paintings, eventually assembling a collection of about 150 works by leading French artists from Delacroix to Braque, which she donated to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She gave a sizable collection of portraits of her family to The New-York Historical Society.
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
