Madame Jumel Collects

With Margaret A. Oppenheimer, the author of “The Remarkable Rise of Eliza Jumel: A Story of Marriage and Money in the Early Republic.”

This illustrated lecture features the amazing Eliza Jumel, who was raised in a brothel, indentured as a servant, confined to a workhouse while her mother was in jail, yet rose to become one of the richest women in New York.  Art historian Margaret Oppenheimer will discuss a pioneering collection of over 240 paintings that Jumel assembled in Paris in the early nineteenth century.