Madame Jumel Collects
Where: New York Public Library—Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library
476 Fifth Ave. (42nd St. Entrance)
212-340-0863 Price: Free
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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.