Portrait of Samuel P. Avery
date: label: Date made
content: 1876
name: label: original artist
content: Madrazo y Garreta, Raimundo de
label: graphic artist
content: Flameng, Léopold
notes: label: Description
content: Samuel Putnam Avery (1818–1904), a New York-based art dealer and print collector, made annual buying excursions to Europe from 1867 to 1882 to look for decorative arts and paintings, some of which he commissioned directly from the artists. He also searched for prints to add to his own collection, seeking not just the original etchings valued today but also reproductive works by artists like Flameng, Jacquemart, and Rajon. French prints made up the core of his collection, almost 18,000 of which are now in the New York Public Library. Léopold Flameng etched this portrait of Avery in 1876 after a painting by Raimundo de Madrazo y Garreta. The Avery family gave the painting to the Metropolitan Museum in 1904. Madrazo (1841–1920) was a fashionable portrait and genre painter, resident in New York and Paris, who was promoted by Avery.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place drawn
content: Spain
label: place print made
content: France
topic: label: Subject
content: Portraits
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content: Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
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content: Ferris Collection
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content: Communications
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content: Art
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Jean Leon Gerome Ferris
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: GA.14576
label: catalog number
content: 14576
label: accession number
content: 94830
objectType: label: Object Name
content: print
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: image: 19.7 cm x 15.7 cm; 7 3/4 in x 6 3/16 in
label: Measurements
content: plate: 28.3 cm x 19.6 cm; 11 1/8 in x 7 11/16 in
label: Measurements
content: sheet: 32.5 cm x 23.6 cm; 12 25/32 in x 9 9/32 in