The home Eliza and Stephen purchased in 1810, today a museum.
The Jumel Mansion in 1854, with its sweeping view of the Harlem River.
The entrance to the mansion, ca. 1875. The colonnade terminated in a gatehouse at each end.
In the early 1820s, Eliza and Stephen lived at 16, Place Vendôme, just to the left of center on the right side of the square (hidden by the building in the right foreground).
Eliza’s painting of a girl with a dog by Jean-Frédéric Schall was either this picture or one similar to it.
This Jean-Marc Nattier portrait of a youth dressed as the wine god, Bacchus—the sitter was once thought to be the young Louis XV—is almost certainly the painting of Louis XV in the Dress of Bacchus that Eliza owned.
King David Playing the Harp by Simon Vouet, once in Eliza’s collection.
Hagar, the Angel, and Ishmael in the Desert, another painting Eliza acquired in Paris.
A mourning miniature, traditionally said to be of Eliza, dating from around the time of Stephen’s death. The goldfinch symbolizes both the resurrection and the soul.
Eliza’s second husband, Aaron Burr, about six months after their marriage.
Eliza had her silhouette taken in Saratoga Springs, the resort where she summered for twenty-seven years.
Eliza’s faithful nephew-in-law Nelson Chase (far right). The artist, Augustin Édouart, pasted his file copies of Eliza and Nelson’s silhouettes side-by-side in his album
The lithograph Eliza commissioned in Paris in 1852.
Eliza with her great-niece and great-nephew in Rome, painted by Alcide Ercole (detail).
Eliza’s summer home in Saratoga Springs.
The front hall of the Jumel Mansion.
Eliza, seated at right, with family and friends at the Jumel Mansion, ca. 1860.
The Jumel crypt at Trinity Cemetery & Mausoleum in Upper Manhattan.
The Count Johannes, failed actor turned advocate, performed as histrionically in court as on the stage.
Lawyer Charles O’Conor, famed for his involvement in the Jumel will case.
George Washington Bowen, the most determined claimant to Eliza’s fortune.
MARGARET A. OPPENHEIMER holds a PhD in art history from New York University. She is the author of The French Portrait: Revolution to Restoration and articles in Apollo, the Metropolitan Museum Journal, The Magazine Antiques, and other publications. She volunteers as a docent at New York’s Morris-Jumel Mansion, Eliza Jumel’s former home.
Jacket design: Natalya Balnova
Front cover photos: (top) Library of Congress LC-DIG-ppmsca-18258;
(bottom) Alcide Ercole, Jumel Family Portrait (detail), 1854.
Oil on canvas, 97 x 68 in., MJM 1980.429.1. Collection of the
Morris-Jumel Mansion. Photograph by Trish Mayo.
Author photo: David J. Martin Photography
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