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Albert Rosenthal American, 1863-1939 Millinery (In Seal and Sable), 1914 Signed Albert Rosenthal and dated 1914 (lr) Oil on canvas 40 1/8 x 30 inches Provenance: The artist Gift to the collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts of the City of Detroit, 1924 Exhibited: New York, Ferargil Galleries, before 1919 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 114th Annual Exhibition of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Feb. 9-Mar. 30, 1919 (as Millinery) Missouri, City Art Museum of St. Louis, Fifteenth Annual Exhibition, Sep. 15-Oct. 31, 1920 (as In Seal and Sable) Michigan, Detroit Institute of Arts of the City of Detroit, Tenth Annual Exhibition of Selected Paintings by American Artists (as The Millinery), Apr. 23-May 31, 1924 Literature: Marion E. Fenton, "Art," Vogue, 54 (Nov. 1, 1919), 154 illus. (as Millinery) A painter, etcher, and expert on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century American art, Albert Rosenthal studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, in Munich, and in Paris with Jean-Léon Gérôme. Although his paintings consist mostly of portraits-many depicting historically important American political and military figures-he also rendered modern life images in the realist mode of the Ashcan School, such as Millinery. The subject in this painting tries on one of the large Duchess-style hats popular in the early 1910s, choosing it over the bonnet displayed on the table. Her considered decision-making reflects the importance women once placed on their hats, as statements of social status. (Degas, Manet, and Pissarro also painted this subject.) In 1919, Rosenthal's Millinery was illustrated in Vogue magazine with the caption: "A clever bit of work, spontaneous and vivid and handled with a light sure touch was 'Millinery.'" Rosenthal exhibited the work in the following year with the title In Seal and Sable and gifted it to the Detroit Institute of Arts in 1924, after its inclusion in the museum's annual exhibition. C The Spanierman Gallery, LLC Collection of American Art