Brooklyn Museum: American Art: My Family

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My Family

Artist: Leopold Seyffert, American, 1887-1956
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dates: 1928
Dimensions: 76 3/4 x 51 1/2 in. (195.0 x 130.8 cm)
Signature: Signed lower right: "Leopold Seyffert / 1929" [?]
Collections: American Art
Museum Location: This item is not on view
Accession Number: 63.196
Credit Line: Gift of the Seyffert Family
Image: Overall, 63.196_transp3338.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph

Catalogue Description: Group portrait featuring, left to right, artist's first wife, Helen Fleck Seyffert (1891-1951), and sons Peter (1917-?) and Richard Leopold (1915-1979). Leopold and Helen were divorced in 1930; Richard would later become a portraitist like his father.