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1925

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2017

2025

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Portrait of Hattie Carnegie

This object is not part of the Cooper Hewitt's permanent collection. It was able to spend time at the museum on loan from Private Collection as part of The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s.

It is dated ca. 1925. Its medium is mixed media on panel.

Hattie Carnegie became one of the most successful boutique purveyors of fashion and accessories in New York during the 1920s. French enamelist Jean Dunand produced portraits of many prominant figures in 1920s society across arts and cultures, also including Madeleine Vionnet, Josephine Baker, and Florence Blumenthal.

It is credited Private Collection.

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Its dimensions are

H x W (framed): 94.5 × 69.7 × 3.3 cm (37 3/16 × 27 7/16 × 1 5/16 in.) H x W (unframed): 79.4 × 54.6 cm (31 1/4 × 21 1/2 in.)

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibition The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s.

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