Mad.m Genet, (Cornelia Clinton.) [engraving]
1854
P&E L1994.969.17m
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Title
Mad.m Genet, (Cornelia Clinton.) [engraving]
Published
New York D. Appleton & Co. [1854]
Description
1 print ; on sheet 29 x 21 cm.
Call Number
P&E L1994.969.17m
Note
Three-quarter length, standing, to the right. Her hands are wrapped around her waist holding her shawl. She wears a ribbon in her curly hair. In the backgound is a tree to the left and flowers and scrubbery to the right.
Below the title it reads: "From an original picture in possession of her daughter, Mrs. Van Rensselaer. Greenbushl."
Cornelia Clinton, daughter of the Governor of New York, married Edmund C. Genet, minister from France representing Robespierre, who had a stormy relationship with George Washington. He was said to have behaved badly on a visit to Mount Vernon upon discovering a bust of Louis XVI on display there. Mr. Genet married again, this time to the daughter of Mr. Osgood, the Postmaster General. He died at his home in Greenbush, N.Y. in 1834.
From Griswold, "The Republican court, or American society in the days of Washington," page 295.
Digitized image available.
Below the title it reads: "From an original picture in possession of her daughter, Mrs. Van Rensselaer. Greenbushl."
Cornelia Clinton, daughter of the Governor of New York, married Edmund C. Genet, minister from France representing Robespierre, who had a stormy relationship with George Washington. He was said to have behaved badly on a visit to Mount Vernon upon discovering a bust of Louis XVI on display there. Mr. Genet married again, this time to the daughter of Mr. Osgood, the Postmaster General. He died at his home in Greenbush, N.Y. in 1834.
From Griswold, "The Republican court, or American society in the days of Washington," page 295.
Digitized image available.
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