Frieze and ceiling, 1881–82, Made in New York, New York, United States, American, Oil on canvas, .19a: 29 1/2 in. × 12 ft. 9 1/4

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Frieze and ceiling, 1881–82, Made in New York, New York, United States, American, Oil on canvas, .19a: 29 1/2 in. × 12 ft. 9 1/4 in. ( × cm), Architecture, George A. Schastey (1839–1894), Attributed to Virgilio Tojetti (Italian, Rome 1849–1901 New York), George A. Schastey & Co. (1873–97), In 1881, Arabella Worsham, then-mistress of railroad magnate Collis P. Huntington, hired George A. Schastey & Co. to decorate her townhouse at 4 West Fifty-Fourth Street in New York City. The resulting artistic interiors would have been considered the height of cosmopolitan style in the early 1880s and were emblematic of Worsham’s quest to fashion her identity as a wealthy, prominent woman of taste

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