Mrs. Alfred Q. Collins
1885–1903
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
27 x 22 in. (68.6 x 55.9 cm)
Classification
Painting
Culture
American
Department
The American Wing
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of the artist's friends, 1905
Accession Number
05.34
Tags
Art Historical Context
Nestled in The Metropolitan Museum of Art's American Wing, *Mrs. Alfred Q. Collins* (1885–1903) is a poignant oil-on-canvas portrait by the artist himself, Alfred Q. Collins. Measuring 27 x 22 inches, this intimate work captures the likeness of the artist's wife during the late 19th and early 20th centuries—a period when American portraiture flourished amid the Gilded Age's social shifts and growing emphasis on personal legacy. Painted in the traditional oil medium, favored for its rich depth and luminous skin tones, the piece exemplifies the era's focus on realistic depiction and psychologic...