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LEOPOLD GOULD SEYFFERT Mrs. Henry L. Stimson.
Oil on canvas, 1915. 1016x877 mm; 40x34 1/2inches. Signed and dated in oil, lower right recto.
The sitter's husband, Henry Lewis Stimson (1867-1950), served as Secretary of State under Herbert Hoover from 1929-33 and as Secretary of War under both Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry Truman from 1940-45. Stimson was paramount in the development of the Manhattan Project.
