Lot 33: Raimundo de Madrazo y Garretta (Spanish, 1841-1920)

Judith Carter Moale Cutting
signed and inscribed 'R. Madrazo d'après photographie' (lower left)
oil on canvas
45 3/4 x 35 in. (116.2 x 88.9 cm.)

PROPERTY FROM A PENNSYLVANIA COLLECTION

Spanish by birth, Raimundo Madrazo y Garretta was well-known in society circles in America as well as his native Europe and received important portrait commissions as a result. As indicated by the signature, this elegant portrait was worked up from photograph of the sitter, Judith Carter Moale Cutting. Judith Carter Moale, a Baltimore native, married Robert Livingston Cutting, Jr., a wealthy New York businessman and philanthropist whose portrait is housed at the New York Historical Society, New York along with a pastel on paper of the sitter.