| Lydig, Rita de Acosta, 1880-1929 | ||||||||||||||||
| type | Collector Patron | |||||||||||||||
| dates | 1875-1929 | |||||||||||||||
| city | New York City | |||||||||||||||
| state | NY | |||||||||||||||
| other cities | Paris, France; London, United Kingdom; | |||||||||||||||
| sex | F | |||||||||||||||
| history |
Rita Lydig, née Rita Hernandez de Alba de Acosta, was an art collector, patron, socialite and philanthropist. Lydig was photographed, sculpted, and painted by artists such as Edward Steichen, Augustus Rodin, and John Singer Sargent. Counted among her friends were Edgar Degas, August Rodin, Leo Tolstoy, Sarah Bernhardt, Ethel Barrymore, and Claude Debussy among her friends. Lydig’s collection included paintings, tapestries (Flemish and Burgundian), bronzes, majolica, French Limoges reliquary, German Crucifix, faience, sarcophagi, European and Asian porcelains. The collection included work by or attributed to, among others, Sandro Botticelli, Sano di Pietro, Neroccio Di Bartolomeo, Mattea di Giovanni, Alonso Sánchez Coello, Juan Bautista Martínez del Mazo, Matteo di Giovanni, Tintoretto, Antonio Moro, Alonso Sanchez, and Mazo, Mino da Fiesole, Giovanna da Bologna, Putti, and Andrea Riccio. A catalog of her collection was cataloged by Wilhelm R. Valentiner with the assistance of Durr Friedley and was auctioned off in 1913 via the American Art association (selling for $362,555). Lydig's sister, Mercedes de Acosta, gave Rita de Acosta's collection of clothes and shoes to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. |
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