Artwork Details
- Title
- We Both Must Fade (Mrs. Fithian)
- Artist
- Date
- 1869
- Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
- 72 x 53 3⁄4 in. (182.9 x 136.5 cm.)
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase
- Mediums
- Mediums Description
- oil on canvas
- Classifications
- Subjects
- Allegory — quality — vanity
- Allegory — life
- Portrait female — Fithian, Mrs. — full length
- Object Number
- 1970.101
Artwork Description
See! From those priceless jewels in her bower,
The queenly Beauty turns her neck away,
And Eyes that pale not 'neath the diamond's ray,
Muse in their loveliness on one sweet flower
Whose bloom alas! Has reach'd its fated hour.
Exhibition Label, Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2006