Six Watercolors depicting the Interior of The Elms

1934

Six watercolors on paper depicting the interior of The Elms by David Mode Payne (American, c. 1935) comprising:



(.1) The Ballroom Room showing the area around the mantel.



(.2) The Ballroom showing the south end with the

Labille-Guiard painting (bequeathed to the

Metropolitan Museum of New York by Miss

Julia Berwind) hanging over the mirror.



(.3) The Breakfast Room showing the room looking

southeast toward the mantel.


(.4) The Entrance Hall & Gallery looking east

showing the staircase.




(.5) The South Alcove showing the Berwind

Collection of Oriental ceramics including their

collection of K'ang His (1662-1722) powder-

blue wares with famille verte decoration.



(.6) The Dining Room looking Northeast showing

the mantel, dining table, and Scipio Africanus

paintings including the overdoors sold at the

auction in 1962; the watercolors, each in a

giltwood frame.

American

watercolor on paper

.1= 24.5" x 20.5"
.2 = 24.5" x 20.5"
.3= 21.5" x 20.5"
.4= 23.5" x 20.25"
.5= 24" x 20.25"
.6= 23.5" x 20.5"

Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Edmund G. Bradfield.

PSNC.2675.1-.6

PSNC.3605.1-.5: Photographs of these watercolors