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Conversation Piece, Lilly Martin Spencer, ca. 1851–52
Lilly Martin Spencer, portraitLilly Martin SpencerAmerican, 1822–1902

Conversation Piece

ca. 1851–52 · Painting

May one see it?

Yes, receiving visitors

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York, United States

Room736

On public display.

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Source
The museum
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Accession number
1998.413

What it shows

InteriorBabiesFatherMothersDolls

In the catalog

PaintingsOilAmerican paintingRealism19th centuryAmerican

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Young Husband: First Marketing

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c. 1859 · National Gallery of Art

This Little Pig Went to Market, Lilly Martin Spencer, c. 1857

This Little Pig Went to Market

c. 1857 · Art Institute of Chicago

My Poor Sweet Little Angelica, Lilly Martin Spencer, 19th century

My Poor Sweet Little Angelica

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Benjamin Rush Spencer, Lilly Martin Spencer, 1848-1852

Benjamin Rush Spencer

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We Both Must Fade (Mrs. Fithian), Lilly Martin Spencer, 1869

We Both Must Fade (Mrs. Fithian)

1869 · Smithsonian American Art Museum

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Asher Brown Durand

Landscape—Scene from "Thanatopsis", 1850

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Lilly Martin Spencer

Young Husband: First Marketing, 1854

Summer Day on Conesus Lake, John Frederick Kensett, 1870

John Frederick Kensett

Summer Day on Conesus Lake, 1870

Fisher Boy, Hiram Powers, 1841–44; carved 1857

Hiram Powers

Fisher Boy, 1841–44; carved 1857

Still Life: Flowers and Fruit, Severin Roesen, 1850–55

Severin Roesen

Still Life: Flowers and Fruit, 1850–55

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Filatrice, Henry Kirke Brown, 1850

Henry Kirke Brown

Filatrice, 1850

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Seymour Joseph Guy

The Contest for the Bouquet: The Family of Robert Gordon in Their New York Dining-Room, 1866

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Ansel Adams

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Madame Georges Charpentier (Marguerite-Louise Lemonnier, 1848–1904) and Her Children, Georgette-Berthe (1872–1945) and Paul-Emile-Charles (1875–1895), Auguste Renoir, 1878

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Pablo Picasso

Boy and Sleeping Girl in Candlelight (Garçon et dormeuse à la chandelle), 1934

Not on view · National Gallery of Art

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Pablo Picasso

Two Women Waking Up (Deux Femmes au Réveil), 1959, printed 1964

Not on view · National Gallery of Art

Faun Unveiling a Woman (Faune dévoilant une femme), Pablo Picasso, 1936

Pablo Picasso

Faun Unveiling a Woman (Faune dévoilant une femme), 1936

Not on view · National Gallery of Art

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Pablo Picasso

The Frugal Repast (Le repas frugal), 1904, published 1913

Not on view · National Gallery of Art