Beauty's legacy : gilded age portraits in America / edited by Barbara Dayer Gallati; with a contribution by Valerie Steele.

The catalog features 65 portraits from the New-York Historical Society collection: sitters range from celebrated beauties to business titans, among them Mrs. William Waldorf Astor, Emma Thursby, Samuel Verplanck Hoffman, Mary Barrett Wendell, Reverend Henry Codman Potter, and Mary Gardiner Thompson;...

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Corporate Author: New-York Historical Society (Host institution)
Other Authors: Gallati, Barbara Dayer (Editor)
Steele, Valerie (Contributor)
Language:English
Published: New York : The New-York Historical Society in association with D Giles Limited, [2013]
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Physical Description:184 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 29 cm
Format: Book

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505 0 |a Gilded age portraiture: cultural capital personified -- Peter Marié's gallery of beauty: "a dream of fair women" -- Miniatures -- Painted beauty: portraits, fashion, and cosmetics in the gilded age -- Paintings and sculpture. 
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