The Remarkable Rise of Eliza Jumel (61 page)

09.
Madame Stephen Jumel
. Watercolor on ivory, 4 1/8 x 3 5/8 in., 1957.35. Photography © New-York Historical Society. Collection of the New-York Historical Society, Gift of Mr. Thomas W. Streeter.

10. James van Dyck (active 1825–1843),
Aaron Burr
, 1834. Oil on wood panel, 9 5/8 x 7 3/4 in., 1931.57. Photography © New-York Historical Society. Collection of the New-York Historical Society, Gift of Dr. John E. Stillwell.

11. Augustin Amant Constance Fidèle Édouart (1788–1861),
Silhouette of Eliza Jumel
, 1843. Cut-paper silhouette on a lithograph, 12 3/4 x 9 3/4 in., MJM 1980.423.2.1.97. Collection of the Morris-Jumel Mansion.

12. Emily Jackson Photograph Collection of Édouart's American Silhouette Portraits, PR 101 (photograph of four of Augustin Amant Constance Fidèle Édouart's cut-paper silhouettes). Photography © New-York Historical Society. Collection of the New-York Historical Society.

13.
Eliza Jumel Burr
, 1852. Lithograph, image 14 1/4 x 10 7/8 in., MJM 1980.467. Collection of the Morris-Jumel Mansion.

14. Alcide Ercole,
Jumel Family Portrait
(detail), 1854. Oil on canvas, 97 x 68 in., MJM 1980.429.1. Collection of the Morris-Jumel Mansion. Photograph by Trish Mayo.

15. Photograph by Peter Flass. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license.

16. Abraham Hosier,
Hall of the Roger Morris or Jumel Mansion
. Watercolor on paper, 11 3/4 x 9 1/4 in., 48.129.7. Collection of the Museum of the City of New York.

17. E. Bierstadt,
Eliza Jumel and others outside the Jumel Mansion
(detail), ca. 1860. Artotype. Photography © New-York Historical Society. Collection of the New-York Historical Society, Gift of Charles Mauer.

18. Photograph by Trish Mayo.

19. George Gardner Rockwood (1832–1911),
George Jones, the Count Johannes
, New York, 1878. Silver gelatin photograph, 2 1/2 x 4 in., UW36467. 19th Century Actors Carte-devisite Collection, PH Coll 75. University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections.

20.
Charles O'Conor
, between 1865 and 1880. Wet collodion glass negative. Brady-Handy Photograph Collection, LC-DIG-cwpbh-05062. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.

21. George Washington Bowen, the most determined claimant to Eliza's fortune. Current location unknown. Image courtesy of the Morris-Jumel Mansion.

The home Eliza and Stephen purchased in 1810, today a museum.

The Jumel Mansion in 1854, with its sweeping view of the Harlem River.

The entrance to the mansion, ca. 1875. The colonnade terminated in a gatehouse at each end.

In the early 1820s, Eliza and Stephen lived at 16, Place Vendôme, just to the left of center on the right side of the square (hidden by the building in the right foreground).

Eliza's painting of a girl with a dog by Jean-Frédéric Schall was either this picture or one similar to it.

This Jean-Marc Nattier portrait of a youth dressed as the wine god, Bacchus—the sitter was once thought to be the young Louis XV—is almost certainly the painting of
Louis XV in the Dress of Bacchus
that Eliza owned.

King David Playing the Harp
by Simon Vouet, once in Eliza's collection.

Hagar, the Angel, and Ishmael in the Desert
, another painting Eliza acquired in Paris.

A mourning miniature, traditionally said to be of Eliza, dating from around the time of Stephen's death. The goldfinch symbolizes both the resurrection and the soul.

Eliza's second husband, Aaron Burr, about six months after their marriage.