Hairwork Mourning Picture for Louisa Ammarell
date: label: date made
content: 1896
label: inscribed date
content: 1896-06-20
notes: label: Description
content: Oval palette work memorial or mourning picture featuring a white, urn-topped monument or tombstone marked "IN / MEMORY / OF OUR DEAR / MOTHER / DIED / JUNE 20TH / 1896" beneath a weeping willow at right; brook or stream at left leads to tree-lined hills above which flocks of birds fly into a cloud-filled blue sky. Executed on glass with foliage, groundcover and lettering in shades of light brown human hair against a painted tombstone and landscape. Mounted with a textured beige matboard and off-white, rounded liner in a burnished- and matte-gilt frame with foliate carved outside edge; glazed.
label: Description
content: Made by Emil W. Moutoux (1840-1916) of New York and Brooklyn, NY, for Louisa Ammarell (1837-1896), also of Brooklyn, NY. Moutoux and Ammarell were in-laws: his daughter, Bertha E. Moutoux (1871-1943) married her son, Emil C. Ammarell (1869-1918) in 1892; the donor, William H. Ammarell (1913-1987) was the youngest of Bertha and Emil's 10 children and, hence, a grandson of both the maker (on his mother's side) and the subject (on his father's side).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: New York, Brooklyn
label: place owned
content: United States: New York, Brooklyn
topic: label: Subject
content: Death
label: Subject
content: Hair
label: Subject
content: Landscape
label: Subject
content: Mourning
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Art
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of William H. Ammarell
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1980.0598.01
label: accession number
content: 1980.0598
label: catalog number
content: 1980.0598.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: hairwork
label: Other Terms
content: Painting; Pictures; Hair Work; Mourning
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: hair, human (image material)
label: Physical Description
content: paint (image material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (image material)
label: Physical Description
content: glue (image material)
label: Physical Description
content: wood (frame material)
label: Physical Description
content: gilt (frame material)
label: Physical Description
content: matboard (mat material)
label: Physical Description
content: glass (glazing material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 15 3/4 in x 13 3/4 in x 1 in; 40.005 cm x 34.925 cm x 2.54 cm