Description: DATE OF ** ORIGINAL ** ADVERTISEMENT: 1902COMPANY NAME: LADIES HOME JOURNALPRODUCT(S): MAGAZINECITY / TOWN-STATE: PHILADELPHIAOWNER: N/AENDORSER: N/AARTIST: CHARTRAN Théobald Chartran (20 July 1849 – 16 July 1907) was a classical French academic painter and portrait artist. Early life[edit] Chartran was born in Besançon, France on 20 July 1849. His father was Councilor at the Court of Appeals and he was the nephew of Gen. Chartran who was executed in the Restoration because of his imperialistic tendencies. Through his mother, he was descended from Count Théobald Dillon,[1] who was murdered by his own troops in 1792.[2] While his parents encouraged him to study law or enter the military, young Chartran was inclined towards art. He studied at the Lycée Victor-Hugo in Besançon before heading to Paris in order to devote himself entirely to the study of art under Alexandre Cabanel,[2] later attending the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris.[3] Career[edit] In 1871, the body of Georges Darboy, the Archbishop of Paris, "who had perished in the disorders of the commune", was exhumed in order to receive the last honors, and Chartran made a portrait of the Archbishop in his official robes and on his catafalque. This painting was widely admired by the public and for it, he won the Grand Prix de Rome in 1877.[2] As "T", he was one of the artists responsible for occasional caricatures of Vanity Fair magazine, specializing in French and Italian subjects. His work for Vanity Fair included Pope Leo XIII, Giuseppe Garibaldi, Umberto I of Italy, William Henry Waddington, all in 1878, Charles Gounod, Giuseppe Verdi, Ernest Renan, Jules Grévy, Napoléon Joseph Charles Paul Bonaparte, Victor Hugo, Marshal MacMahon, Granier de Cassagnac, Louis Blanc, and Alexandre Dumas fils, all in 1879. Among Chartran's work is his portrait of René-Théophile-Hyacinthe Laennec, the inventor of the stethoscope, Gen. Gouverneur K. Warren, Benoît-Constant Coquelin, the Maharaja of Kapurthala and the Countess of Maupeou.[4] His individual-subject portraiture is often characterized by a rich background gradient, embodied in Emma Calvé as Carmen (1894).[5] President Roosevelt[edit]In 1899, Henry Clay Frick commissioned Chartran to create a painting of the scene when the peace protocol at the close of the Spanish–American War was signed in the Cabinet Room.[6] In October 1903, Frick gifted the picture, which had cost $20,000, to the United States, which President Roosevelt accepted.[7] In 1902, Chartran was commissioned to paint President Theodore Roosevelt's official portrait after successfully completing portraits of Mrs. Roosevelt in 1902 and Alice Roosevelt in 1901.[8] In discussing his experience with painting the president to Le Figaro, he said that it "was difficult to get the President to sit still. I never had a more restless or more charming sitter. He speaks French like a boulevardier, and wittily." Chartran "did not try to depict the official Roosevelt, but rather the private man."[9] When Roosevelt saw the final product he hated it and hid it in the darkest corner of the White House.[10] When family members called it the "Mewing Cat" for making him look so harmless, he had it destroyed and hired John Singer Sargent to paint a more masculine portrait.[11] THEME: MRS THEODORE ROOSEVELT Edith Kermit Roosevelt (née Carow; August 6, 1861 – September 30, 1948) was the second wife of President Theodore Roosevelt and the first lady of the United States from 1901 to 1909. She also was the second lady of the United States prior to that in 1901. Roosevelt was the first First Lady to employ a full-time, salaried social secretary. Her tenure resulted in the creation of an official staff and her formal dinners and ceremonial processions served to elevate the position of First Lady. Early life[edit] Edith Kermit Carow was born August 6, 1861, in Norwich, Connecticut, to Charles Carow and Gertrude Elizabeth Tyler, the first of their two daughters.[1] Though her family was wealthy, her father was an unsuccessful businessman as well as a chronic gambler and an alcoholic, while her mother was a hypochondriac.[1][2] For much of her childhood, her family was forced to move in with various relatives.[3] She was troubled by her childhood, and she rarely spoke of her parents throughout her adult life.[4] The Carows were close friends with their neighbors, the Roosevelts, and Edith's early schooling took place at the Roosevelt home, as well as etiquette instruction at the Dodsworth School.[2] Corinne Roosevelt was Edith's closest childhood friend, and Edith was often brought along with the Roosevelt children in their family activities.[1] At age four, she stood with the Roosevelts on their balcony to watch Abraham Lincoln's funeral procession.[5] Edith and Corinne formed their own literature club as children, the "Party of Renowned Eligibles", in which Edith served as club secretary each week over three years.[6] Edith also bonded with Corinne's brother, Theodore Roosevelt, over their mutual love of literature.[7] The Carows moved uptown in 1871, where Edith attended Miss Comstock's School.[2] Here she developed a lifelong sense of strict religious morality.[8] She also took a more active interest in English literature, with a particular focus on the works of William Shakespeare, and she learned to speak fluent French.[1][2] After graduating from Miss Comstock's School in 1879, Edith participated in New York social life, attending balls and making social calls. She was unable to travel, as she had to stay home tending for her parents, who had both grown ill. Her father died from alcohol-related illness in 1883.[9] Edith and Theodore grew closer as teenagers,[10] and they developed romantic feelings for one another.[11] They stayed in touch when Theodore went to Harvard University, but they had a falling out in August 1878.[12] The details surrounding this stage of their relationship are not known. Various reasons have been proposed by the respective families and by historians for their split, including a rejected proposal, Theodore Roosevelt Sr.'s disapproval of Charles Carow's alcoholism, a rumor that the Roosevelts were afflicted with scrofula, or clashing personalities between two people with strong tempers.[10][7] They revitalized their friendship in December 1879. Theodore was engaged with Alice Hathaway Lee at this time. This caused Edith grief, but she held a dinner in the couple's honor and then attended their wedding.[9] She maintained a close relationship with the Roosevelts over the following years, though she was cold toward Alice.[13] After the deaths of Theodore's wife and his mother in February 1884, he moved west and distanced himself from his life in New York, and Edith did not see him for the following year.[14] He avoided Edith intentionally, worrying that he would betray his Alice by having feelings for Edith.[1] He returned to New York in September 1885,[15] where he encountered Edith by chance at his sister's house.[1] They were secretly engaged in November 1885, unwilling to disclose that Theodore was to rewed so soon after the death of his wife. After their engagement was set, they separated for eight months so Edith could help her mother and sister move to Europe while Theodore could settle his business affairs on the frontier.[15] Marriage[edit] Theodore Roosevelt's first wife, Alice Lee Roosevelt, died on February 14, 1884, aged 22, leaving behind their baby daughter also named Alice. Theodore and Edith rekindled their relationship in 1885.[16] They married in St George's, Hanover Square, London on December 2, 1886, when he was 28 and she was 25.[17] His best man was Cecil Spring Rice, later the British ambassador to the United States during World War I. Rice also maintained a close friendship with the couple for the rest of his life.[18] Theodore and Edith's engagement was announced in the New York Times. After their honeymoon, the couple lived at Sagamore Hill on Long Island, New York.[17] Roosevelt called his first daughter “Baby Lee” instead of “Alice” so as not to remind himself of the death of his first wife.[19] Together, the couple raised Alice (Theodore's daughter from his previous marriage) and their own children: Theodore (1887), Kermit (1889), Ethel (1891), Archibald (1894), and Quentin (1897).[17] In 1888, Theodore was appointed to the United States Civil Service Commission, where he served until 1895. While Edith supported her husband's decision to accept the position, she lamented that her third pregnancy would detain her at Sagamore Hill.[20] Kermit Roosevelt was born on October 10, 1889, and Edith moved to Washington with their children three months later.[20] During this period, Edith and Henry Adams became close friends.[20] At Edith's insistence, Theodore did not run for mayor of New York in 1894, because she preferred their life in Washington, D.C., and his job as a U.S. Civil Service Commissioner.[17] When Theodore became New York City police commissioner in 1895, they moved to New York City.[21] In 1897, Theodore was chosen as Assistant Secretary of the Navy and the family moved back to Washington.[21] In 1898, Edith traveled by train to Tampa, Florida, to send her husband off to fight in the Spanish–American War.[16] Upon his return from Cuba, Edith defied a quarantine to meet him in Montauk, New York, where she assisted veterans at the hospital. In October 1898, when Roosevelt was nominated for the governorship, she helped answer his mail, but stayed off the campaign trail.[17] First Lady of New York[edit] Edith Roosevelt enjoyed being First Lady of New York. During this time, she modernized the governor's mansion, joined a local woman's club, and continued to assist with her husband's correspondence.[17] While First Lady of the state, Edith began a custom that would continue in the White House—she held a bouquet of flowers in each hand.[citation needed] Edith found shaking a stranger's hand overly familiar and preferred to bow her head in greeting.[16] Edith moved back to Washington when Roosevelt won the vice presidency in 1900.[17] First Lady[edit] After President William McKinley’s assassination, Theodore Roosevelt assumed the presidency, and his wife became the nation’s First Lady.[17] With the country in mourning, the new First Lady could not do any entertaining. Instead, she focused on how to fit her large family into the White House. Edith eliminated the office of the housekeeper, performing the supervisory work herself.[20] Edith Roosevelt also made a major institutional change when she hired Isabelle "Belle" Hagner as the first social secretary to serve a First Lady.[20][22] Hagner's initial assignment was to plan Alice Roosevelt's debut in 1902.[20] Soon, Edith began to rely on Hagner and authorized her to release photos of the First Family in hopes of avoiding unauthorized candids.[20] Edith built on the First Lady's long history of entertaining visitors and made the titular office into that of the nation's hostess.[16] She expanded the number of social events held at the White House, ensured the parties of Cabinet wives would not outshine hers, and worked to make Washington the nation's cultural center.[16] The two most significant social events during Edith's tenure as first lady were the wedding of her stepdaughter and the society debut of her daughter, Ethel.[23] Edith also organized the wives of the cabinet officers and tried to govern the moral conduct of Washington society through their guest lists.[23] Edith is believed to have exerted subtle influence over her husband.[20] They met privately every day from 8 to 9 am.[20] The President's assistant, William Loeb, often helped sway the Chief Executive to Edith Roosevelt's way of thinking.[20] She read several newspapers per day and forwarded clippings she considered important to her husband.[16] In a 1933 article in the Boston Transcript, Isabelle Hagner reported that the legislation which created the National Portrait Gallery was passed because of Edith's influence.[20] Historians believe her most important historical contribution was acting as an informal liaison between Theodore Roosevelt and British diplomat Cecil Spring Rice, a link which gave the President unofficial information about the Russo-Japanese War.[24] As a result of negotiating the treaty which ended that conflict, President Roosevelt won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1906.[24] The President and his wife became the first president and First Lady to travel abroad while in office when they made a trip to Panama.[25] A perceptive aide described Edith Roosevelt as "always the gentle, high-bred hostess; smiling often at what went on about her, yet never critical of the ignorant and tolerant always of the little insincerities of political life."[26] In 1905, Edith purchased Pine Knot, a cabin in rural Virginia, as a refuge for her husband.[17][23] At Pine Knot, the Secret Service guarded him without his knowledge.[24] KEYWORDS (TEXT & IMAGE): LADIES HOME JOURNAL, MRS THEODORE ROOSEVELT, CHARTRAN, PHILADELPHIA, FIRST LADY, PRESIDENT, PAINTINGDATE PRINTED ON ITEM: YES ADVERT SIZE: APPROX- 10-1/2" x 15" ITEM GRADE: VERY GOOD CONDITION: CLEAN, PERFECT FOR FRAMING AND DISPLAYING. 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