Mrs. Lavinia M. Parcells Pike and Baby Mary Elizabeth, (painting).

Mrs. Lavinia M. Parcells Pike and Baby Mary Elizabeth, (painting).

Unknown, painter.

Mrs. Lavinia M. Parcells Pike and Baby Mary Elizabeth, (painting).

33 7/8 x 27 3/4 in.

Portrait of Mrs. Lavinia Pike seated on the end of a red upholstered sofa, her body turned slightly to the left, her gaze directed down, and her arms wrapped around her baby daughter Mary Elizabeth seated on a pillow with her back resting against the arm of the sofa. Mrs. Pike wears a long-sleeved black dress adorned with an elaborate white lace collar and ruffled white lace cuffs. On her head she wears a ruffled white lace bonnet adorned with a wide yellow ribbon tied in two a large bows. Her dark hair falls in ringlets around her face, and she wears long dangle earrings. Her daughter Mary Elizabeth plays with a long gold chain worn around her mother's neck. The baby has blond hair and wears a white dress with puffed sleeves trimmed with blue bows. In the background, drapery is pulled back to reveal a window with a rural landscape.

Portrait group -- Family -- Mother & Child

Portrait female -- Pike, Noah Thorpe, Mrs. (Lavinia M. Parcells) -- Waist length

Portrait female -- Pike, Mary Elizabeth -- Child

Portrait female -- Pike, Mary Elizabeth -- Knee length

Dress -- Accessory -- Jewelry

Dress -- Accessory -- Hat

Architecture interior -- Detail -- Window

Chrysler Museum of Art, 245 West Olney Road (at Mowbray Arch), Norfolk, Virginia 23510-1587 Accession Number: 76.53.14

Gift of Garbisch, Edgar William & Bernice Chrysler,

Hagood, Martha N., and Jefferson C. Harrison, "American Art at the Chrysler Museum: Selected Paintings, Sculpture, and Drawings," Norfolk, VA: Chrysler Museum of Art, 2005, pg. 40.

Hagood, Martha N., and Jefferson C. Harrison, "American Art at the Chrysler Museum: Selected Paintings, Sculpture, and Drawings," Norfolk, VA: Chrysler Museum of Art, 2005, pg. 40.

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