Title:

Helena Modjeska Portrait [graphic]

Digital Anaheim.

Description:

Helena Opid Modjeska is sitting in an ornate arm chair with her right arm resting on a marble top table. She is wearing a two diamond ring on her right ring finger. Her hair is pulled back with ringlets in the back. She is wearing a ribbon choker that has two pins, one is a large circle of diamonds, the other is smaller and pinned inside the circle pin. Her dress is a square cut decolletage with folded ribbons from side to side and in the back. She also is wearing a long 4-strand pearl necklace about every four inches around the necklace is a five-diamond bar, in the center is a large brooch holding the strands together, with three tear shaped pearls. Down the center of the bodice is three ribbon bows. The skirt front panel appears to be brocade with the rest of the skirt a plain material. Four ribbon bows are down the brocade material. The long sleeved jacket is of the same material, solid and brocade.

Date:

ca. 1896 (issued)

Contributing Institution:

Anaheim Public Library