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Title: Frank Duveneck
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Heermann, Norbert
Subjects: American art
Publisher: New York: Houghton Mifflin Company
Contributing Library: Whitney Museum of American Art, Frances Mulhall Achilles Library
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n. The sequel to this story was theirengagement which, however, did not result inmarriage until nearly seven years later. Theywere married in Paris in 1886 and spent thetwo brief years before her untimely death, inFlorence, in a villa on the crest of a hill over-looking the city. She died in Paris and liesburied in the Allori Cemetery in Florence,where the memorial figure in bronze, whichDuveneck created for it, marks the spot. Ason, Frank, survives her. Mrs. Duveneck possessed great talent. Herwater-colors and canvases, among them pow-erful studies of figures and landscapes, butchiefly of still life, place her without effortamong artists of achievement. SIESTA1887 Notice the superb feeling of complete rest. The understanding ofform, the realization of weight are too evident to need comment; incolor the painting absolutely glows. The canvas was painted in Flor-ence, the model being the same as of the Florentine Flower Girl.The picture was acquired by the Queen City Club of Cincinnati.
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<in 92 27. 00 VI Duveneck returned to his old home, Cin-cinnati, after his wifes death, and there hehas since lived. From this time, his vitalitywent less into his own work and more intothat of others, yet his versatile power wasdemonstrated when he made the superb me-morial and when, with the cooperation ofClement J. Barnhorn, he made the statue ofEmerson, now in Emerson Hall at Harvard.The bust portrait of Dr. Charles W. Eliotalso belongs to that time. In the spring of1894 Duveneck spent two months in Spain.Most of his time there was occupied in thePrado, where he copied Velasquez, the workshe chose being the Portrait of the In-fanta Margarita, the Equestrian Portrait ofPrince D. Baltasar Carlos, Portrait of KingPhilip IV, in a Hunting Suit, Portrait ofKing Philip IV, of Advanced Age, and The 70 FRANK DUVENECK Idiot of Coria. His latest work of importancein painting was an immense mural decoration,started in 1904 and completed in 1909. It wasgiven in memory of his mother to St. M

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