Artist: Cecilia Beaux (1855 - 1942)
Nationality: American
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Media: Painting
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Biography:
Born in Philadelphia, Cecila Beaux spent most of her career working in her hometown and in New York City. She studied at the Academie Julien in Paris, where she developed her talent as a portraitist. Beaux painted the likeness of many notable clients, including Henry James and Theodore Roosevelt. Her autobiography, Background with Figures, was published in 1930.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (40)
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Cecilia Beaux, Little Lamerche, circa 1900
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Cecilia Beaux - Sita and Sarita c. 1921 oil on canvas Corcoran Gallery of Art American
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Cecilia Beaux - Portrait of Joseph Townsend c. 1893 oil on canvas National Museum of Women in the Arts American
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Cecilia Beaux - Portrait of James V. Watson c. 1893 oil on canvas National Museum of Women in the Arts American
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Cecilia Beaux - Ethel Page (Mrs. James Large) 1884 oil on canvas National Museum of Women in the Arts American
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Luigi Rossini, Veduta del Gran Sepolcro di Cecilia Metella (View of the Tomb of Cecilia Metalla), 1822
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Pietro da Cortona - Saint Cecilia 1620-1625 oil on canvas The National Gallery, London Italian
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Goncal Peris - St. Lucy (formerly St. Cecilia) 15th century tempera on panel Williams College Museum of Art Spanish
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Guido Reni - Saint Cecilia 1606 Oil on canvas Norton Simon Museum Italian
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Carlo Saraceni - The Martyrdom of St. Cecilia c. 1610 oil on canvas Los Angeles County Museum of Art Italian
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John Taylor Arms, Jewelry: Choir Stalls of the Cathedral of St. Cecilia, Albi; also called The Reredos, St. Cecilia, Albi, 1938
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James J. Shannon - Portrait of Cecilia Tower 1889 oil on canvas Los Angeles County Museum of Art American
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Mrs. Billington as St. Cecilia, 19th century
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Saint Cecilia
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Saint Cecilia Giving Alms to the Poor
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A. Parboni, Veduta del Selpolcro di Cecilia Metella..., 1825
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Henry Wolf, St. Cecilia, 19th - 20th century
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Multiple Artists, Recueil d*estampes d*aprËs les plus beaux tableaux et d*aprËs les plus beaux desseins qui sont en France ä (Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1729), vol. 1, 19th century
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HonorÈ Daumier, Le vin de proprietaire no. 98 from the series Les beaux jours de la vie, 1846
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Arthur Pond, The Tomb of Cecilia Metella, Rome, 18th century
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HonorÈ Daumier, Les satanÈs sÈducteurs no. 93 from the series Les beaux jours de la vie, 1846
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HonorÈ Daumier, A la porte St. Martin no. 83 from the series Les beaux jours de la vie, 1846
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FranÁois-Louis FranÁais, Les Derniers Beaux Jours, 19th century
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Pietro Barboni, Veduta del Selpolcro di Cecilia Metella, 18th - 19th century
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HonorÈ Daumier, Un banquet de barbistes no. 47 from the series Les beaux jours de la vie, 1845
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HonorÈ Daumier, Un retour de jeunesse no. 50 from the series Les beaux jours de la vie, 1845
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Multiple Artists, Recueil de dessins gravÈs d*aprËs les fameux maitres, tirÈs de la collection de l*AcadÈmie Electorale Palatine des Beaux Arts ý Dusseldorff (Dusseldorf: [AcadÈmie Electorale Palatine des Beaux Arts ?], 1780-[81]), first series-[second se
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HonorÈ Daumier, Une declaration en pleine sociÈtÈ no. 86 from the series Les beaux jours de la vie, 1846
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HonorÈ Daumier, LE RETOUR DE LA FOIRE DE St. CLOUD, no. 75 from the series LES BEAUX JOURS DE LA VIE, 1845
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Sebastien Le Clerc (the elder), L"Academie des Sciences et des Beaux Arts dediee au roi, 1698
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Guiseppe de Nittis , Route de Castellamare, from the Gazette des Beaux Arts, 19th century
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Anonymous, Fariboles: C"est Edouard qui a aussi de beaux cheveux..., 19th century
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HonorÈ Daumier, Les voisines devant le juge de paix no. 50 from the series Les beaux jours de la vie, 1845
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HonorÈ Daumier, Le jour o* il faut se montrer galant no. 50 from the series Les beaux jours de la vie, 1845
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Le Roy, Les Ruines des plus beaux monuments de la GrËce (Paris: H. L. Guerin & L. F. Delatourä, 1758), 1758
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Sebastien Le Clerc (the elder), L"Academie des Sciences et des Beaux Arts dediee au roi, 17th - 18th century
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HonorÈ Daumier, Le jour ou l"on met en perce un tonneau de vin de Malvoisie no. 99 of the series Les beaux jours de la vie, 1846
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HonorÈ Daumier, LE JOUR DE L*AN, no. 35 from the series LES BEAUX JOURS DE LA VIE., published in Le Charivari 27 November 1844, 1844
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Charles Henri Toussaint, La Cour de l"Ecole des Beaux Arts, 19th - 20th century
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Adolphe ThÈodore Jules Martial Potemont, Exposition des Beaux-Arts 1868, 19th century

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (30)
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K20 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen: William Kentridge
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Frick Collection: Greuze the Draftsman
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Gasworks Gallery: Nothing to Lose: An Unprecedented Collaboration Between Gasworks, London and La Friche, Marseilles
Nothing to Lose at Gasworks will see both Majoral and Jabbour working in and around the Gallery space in order to make a site-specific exhibition. By transforming Gasworks Gallery into a studio for six weeks, Nothing to Lose presents the artists w...
Canberra Contemporary Art Space: Madeleine Challender: Light Forms
Madele Challender is an emerging artist working in the medium of light. She began creating light installations in 1998 when she spent six months at L'ecole des Beaux Arts Paris. In 1999 s...
Childs Gallery: Laurent Schkolnyk: Mezzotints
This exhibition is the first time many of these works will be displayed in Boston. These classically-influenced prints appeal not only to collectors of more contemporary prints, but to those who have traditionally collected mainly older, highly cr...
Guggenheim Museum: 1900: Art at the Crossroads
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Louvre Museum: From Delacroix to Matisse: Drawings from the Algiers Museum of Art
Exhibition curators : Arlette Sérullaz, curator at the Department of Graphic Arts, at the Louvre, assigned to the Musée Delacroix Dalila Orfali, director of the Algiers Museum of Fine Arts The restoration of the works was supervised by Nathali...
Frick Collection: Poussin, Claude, and Their World: Seventeenth-Century French Drawings from the École des Beaux-Arts, Paris
The École des Beaux-Arts has seldom placed such a large number of sheets on loan at any given time, and this exhibition will include many drawings that have never been on view in the United States. Furthermore, several new acquisitions are to be ...
Dahesh Museum of Art: Facing the Other: Charles Cordier, Ethnographic Sculptor
Although greatly admired by many artists during his lifetime, including Auguste Rodin (1840 -1917), throughout his career Cordier was forced to defend not only his subjects, but also his materials. Setting aside the standard white marble, Cordi...
Canberra Contemporary Art Space: Process and Emergence 3: Madeleine Challender
Process involves an arrangement of melting ice, perspex objects and fibre optic lighting. A system of light refractions gradually emerges to connect and create a complex network. This work relates to the processes and dynamics of nature from which...
University Art Museum and Gallery: Eternity and a Moment: Paintings by Lam Man-kong
Since 1990 Lam has been living in Paris, where he studied in the École Nationale Superieur des Beaux-arts from 1990 to 1992. He spent one year copying the great masters paintings at the Musée Louvre. He finds inspiration in Impressionist artist...
National Gallery: A Private Passion: 19th-Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, Harvard University
The exhibition is organised by the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, in collaboration with the National Gallery, London, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lyon and Réunion des Musées Nationaux, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, ...
ASU Art Museum: BLUE MEMORY: Paintings by Tran Trong Vu
Suspended from the ceiling, the paintings fill the space and form a labyrinth through which the viewer must walk. The figures hold cameras to their faces or are framed by televisions, products associated with contemporary Asia. Sometimes they are ...
Micro Museum: Pioneering Spirit: Intrepid Women of the 19th Century
Each mixed media painting expresses these individual womenís dignity and presence of mind and tells a story of adventure, courage, fearlessness, strength and above all, femininity. The pieces apply a va! riety of media including acrylic, ink, sa...
Queens Museum of Art: Investigations, an exhibition of photographs by Costa Picadas
Investigations is a unique compilation of photographs with an unusual origin--their initial function was to assess and document the legitimacy of insurance claims in...
Brian Gross Fine Art: Amy Trachtenberg: Ricochet - New Paintings
Born in Pittsburgh, PA in 1955, Trachtenberg studied at California State University in Sonoma, where she received her BA. Trachtenberg continued her studies at the L'Ecole National Superieure des Beaux Arts in Paris receiving her MFA in Painting a...
Brian Gross Fine Art: Amy Trachtenberg: The Weatherhead Series
Trachtenberg's larger canvases, measuring 90 by 60 inches, demonstrate subtle shadowing and veils of color that create both contemplative and complex paintings using abstracted imagery of the weatherhead. Working in a related, monochromatic palett...
Carnegie Museum of Art: William Kentridge Receives the 1999 Carnegie Prize
William Kentridge’s work was first exhibited in and around Johannesburg in the late 1970s. In 1989 he began to participate in international group shows, including Memory and Geography. Africus Johannesburg Biennale (1995); Jurassic ...
Art Gallery of Bishop's University: Donation Luc LaRochelle: A History of photography through the collection of the Museé des beaux-arts de Sherbrooke
G.W. Wilson; Samuel Bourne; J. Valentine; George Fiske; Walker Evans; R. Mapplethorpe; Cecil Beaton; Gilles Caron; A. McBean; Charles Gagnon; Suzy Lake; H. Saxe; S. Toussignant; Geoffrey James; Richard-Max Tremblay; Larry Fink; André Kertesz; A...
Frye Art Museum: Gary Faigin: Tradition and Contradiction
Conducting these gentle tensions is the hand of a consummate formalist. The witty contradictions are made possible, even beautiful, because they float on a harmonious grid of symmetry and are...
Dahesh Museum: Overcoming All Obstacles: The Women of the Académie Julian
The core of the exhibition includes works never before shown publicly from the collection of the successor school, the Académie Julian Del...
Chicago Botanic Garden: A Second Look: Landscape Paintings by Didier Nolet
“Didier uses landscape as a way to capture a state of mind, giving his memories of a certain time and place a second look. Not beholden to painting exactly what is in front of him, he can evoke the past, yet arrange the remembered elements of ligh...
Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington: Short Stories
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Kettle's Yard Gallery: Enrico Castellani Work from 1958 – 1970
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Camden Arts Centre: Pioneer American Conceptual Artist Douglas Huebler
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Center on Contemporary Art: Call for Artists: 2004 Northwest Annual
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Hague Center for Visual Arts, Stroom hcbk: A Day in Holland / Holland in a Day: Photos and Video Works by Barbara Visser
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Cleveland Museum of Art: Dukes and Angels: Art from the Court of Burgundy (1364-1419)
Not restricting their artistic interests to secular art alone, Burgundian court artists were often directed to supply ducal religious foundations and chapels with sculpture, altarpieces, liturgical vessels, and illuminated manuscripts. The most pr...
Micro Museum: Archetype Juxtaposed: William Alexander Kerr and Juliette Pelletier
William Alexander Kerr has exhibited in individual and group shows in the United States, Switzerland and Portugal. Kerr received a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy from Washington University in St. Louis, and is a self-taught fine artist. Prior t...
Anderson Gallery, Drake University: Fallout: A New Site-specific Installation by Chuck Nanney
For his new Anderson Gallery show, however, Nanney veers in a new direction. "FALLOUT" presents no "throwaway" materials and instead is a total transformation of the Anderson Gallery into a dimly-lit bubblegum pink space. The installation is a med...

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