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Accession number: P15563 and P15563X MCH-301M Written in ink at bottom of the 11 x 14 in. photograph: AIMEE DUPONT / 574 Fifth Avenue / NEW YORK Helena Modjeska wrote in ink on the 11 x 14 in.: "For Mabel from her devoted Madrina Helena Modjeska 1896." Helena Opid b.12 October 1849 d.April 1909; m. 1: Gustave Sinnemayer Modrzejewski; m. 2: 1868 Charles (Karol) Felix Bozenta Chlapowski. Helena changed her name from Modrzejewski to Modjeska after coming to America. Helena Opid Modjeska is sitting in an ornate arm chair with her right arm resting on a marble top table. She is wearing a two diamond ring on her right ring finger. Her hair is pulled back with ringlets in the back. She is wearing a ribbon choker that has two pins, one is a large circle of diamonds, the other is smaller and pinned inside the circle pin. Her dress is a square cut decolletage with folded ribbons from side to side and in the back. She also is wearing a long 4-strand pearl necklace about every four inches around the necklace is a five-diamond bar, in the center is a large brooch holding the strands together, with three tear shaped pearls. Down the center of the bodice is three ribbon bows. The skirt front panel appears to be brocade with the rest of the skirt a plain material. Four ribbon bows are down the brocade material. The long sleeved jacket is of the same material, solid and brocade.
Type
image
Format
1 Photographic print: sepia 11 x 14 in. 1 Photographic print: b&w 8 x 10 in. 2 Negatives: 4 x 5 in.
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