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    Artist

  • Lippmann, Rachel, artist

    • Title

  • [Portrait of Stella Dreyfus Koch in a blue dress]

  • Physical Description

    1 painting : oil on canvas ; 90.2 x 72 cm. ; 35.5" x 28", + frame (105.4 x 85.7 x 7 cm.)

  • Date

    circa 1906

  • Summary

    Portrait of a woman sitting with her hands in her lap wearing a blue dress trimmed with white lace on the collar, shoulders and cuffs. Her hair is styled wavy, parted in the middle and pulled back. She wears a gold locket, and rings on her third fingers. In the background is dark curtain which covers most of the room behind her except for a table and chair in front of windows, one which is open. Flowers in a vase and a few other objects rest on the windowsill.

  • Depicted

    Koch, Stella Dreyfus.

  • Subject

    Portraits, Women; Jewelry; Flowers; Windows

  • Genre

    Portraits

  • Medium

    Paintings; Oil paintings

  • Part Of

    Richard Koch Family Collection, AR 25369

  • Accession Number

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Biographical/Historical Information

Stella Dreyfus Koch (1878-1962) was born into a family of German Jewish immigrants in New Orleans. Her parents (Bertha and Leon) were from the Bavarian town of Ingenheim, Germany and immigrated to New Orelans in 1857, where her father Leon went into the jewelry business. In 1889, the family moved to the New York City area, and Stella completed her schooling there, including a degree obtained from Normal (now Hunter) College. She was a teacher in the New York City public schools for some time in the early 1900s. Stella was married to Richard S. Koch (1876-1935), with whom she had Helen A. Koch (1907-1919), Alfred N. Koch (died circa 1919), and Richard F. Koch (1920-2012 ). Stella resided in Cedarhurst, New York for the rest of her life.

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Lippmann, Rachel: [Portrait of Stella Dreyfus Koch in a blue dress], Leo Baeck Institute, 2009.016.