Helena Modjeska as Marie Antoinette
ClassificationsPhotographs
Subject
Madame Helena Modjeska Chlapowska
(1840 - 1909)
Datec. 1891
MediumPhotographic print
DimensionsOverall: 14 5/8 x 10 3/8 in. (37.1 x 26.4 cm)
Framed: 26 3/8 x 22 in. (67 x 55.9 cm)
Framed: 26 3/8 x 22 in. (67 x 55.9 cm)
Credit LineGift of Mrs. A. L. Ford
Object number86.6.1
DescriptionPhotograph of Madame Helena Modjeska as Marie Antoinette taken in 1891 and printed in 1909. Madame Helena Modjeska was one of Poland’s most famous stage actresses. She was already a prominent socialite in the early 1870s and threw lavish salons in her Warsaw home every Tuesday. The thespian knew several important Polish painters, like Jozef Chelmonski, with whom she was close.On View
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