The William K. du Pont Collection: Important Americana from Rocky Hill
The William K. du Pont Collection: Important Americana from Rocky Hill
Savely Abramovitch Sorin
Portrait of Ethel Hallock du Pont (1876-1951)
Auction Closed
January 23, 10:36 PM GMT
Estimate
10,000 - 15,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Savely Abramovitch Sorin
1878 - 1953
Portrait of Ethel Hallock du Pont (1876-1951)
signed and dated 1926 lower left
watercolor on paper
Sheet: 35 3/4 by 28 1/2 in., 91 by 72.5cm
Framed: 38 1/4 by 31in., 97 by 78.5cm
Commissioned from the artist
In the same family since 1926
In the same family since 1926
Exhibition catalogue The du Pont family, two hundred years of portraits: an exhibition, Brandywine River Museum, Chadds Ford, 2000
While visiting France in 1925, Alice Belin du Pont was so inspired by the portraits of Savely Sorin she had seen there that she called the Russian society portraitist to Longwood Gardens in 1926. The artist would paint her watercolour portrait and that of her husband Pierre. Both portraits were hung in the Music Room. It is likely that Sorin painted the present portrait of Ethel Hallock du Pont, the grandmother of William K. du Pont during his stay in Longwood.