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Authors: Margaret A. Oppenheimer
The Remarkable Rise of Eliza Jumel (62 page)
Eliza had her silhouette taken in Saratoga Springs, the resort where she summered for twenty-seven years.
Eliza's faithful nephew-in-law Nelson Chase (far right). The artist, Augustin Ãdouart, pasted his file copies of Eliza and Nelson's silhouettes side-by-side in his album
The lithograph Eliza commissioned in Paris in 1852.
Eliza with her great-niece and great-nephew in Rome, painted by Alcide Ercole (detail).
Eliza's summer home in Saratoga Springs.
The front hall of the Jumel Mansion.
Eliza, seated at right, with family and friends at the Jumel Mansion, ca. 1860.
The Jumel crypt at Trinity Cemetery & Mausoleum in Upper Manhattan.
The Count Johannes, failed actor turned advocate, performed as histrionically in court as on the stage.
Lawyer Charles O'Conor, famed for his involvement in the Jumel will case.
George Washington Bowen, the most determined claimant to Eliza's fortune.
MARGARET A. OPPENHEIMER
holds a PhD in art history from New York University. She is the author of
The French
Portrait: Revolution to Restoration
and articles in
Apollo
, the
Metropolitan
Museum Journal
,
The Magazine Antiques
, and other publications. She volunteers as a docent at New York's Morris-Jumel Mansion, Eliza Jumel's former home.
Jacket design: Natalya Balnova
Front cover photos: (top) Library of Congress LC-DIG-ppmsca-18258;
(bottom) Alcide Ercole,
Jumel Family Portrait
(detail), 1854.
Oil on canvas, 97 x 68 in., MJM 1980.429.1. Collection of the
Morris-Jumel Mansion. Photograph by Trish Mayo.
Author photo: David J. Martin Photography
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