Ilse Lanphere Oil, Girl with Rose-Framed Portrait Miniature — Las Cruces, NM View Watchlist >
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Ilse Lanphere Oil, Girl with Rose-Framed Portrait Miniature — Las Cruces, NM
A small-format figurative oil on stretched canvas by Ilse Elizabeth Stauff Lanphere (German-born, Las Cruces, active 1960 onward), signed "ILSE" lower right on the canvas face. The subject is a girl in late 18th-century Neoclassical dress — a green Empire gown, white fichu cap with pink ribbon trim — cradling a rose-bordered gilt frame that holds a second, smiling child portrait. The composition sets a portrait within a portrait, a genre-revival conceit Lanphere renders with measured brushwork and a studied handling of light against a soft gray-to-ochre ground. The medium is oil on commercially prepared canvas; the gilt wood frame carries egg-and-dart molding and a linen liner.
History
Ilse Elizabeth Stauff Lanphere was a German-born self-taught artist who lived in Las Cruces, New Mexico from 1960 onward. Where many mid-century painters working the German village genre leaned toward the picturesque, Lanphere's compositions hold their ground: the brushwork is measured, the light studied, the structures rendered with the kind of spatial confidence that comes from having lived inside them rather than visiting them. She signed her work simply "ILSE," and her paintings circulated primarily within private collections in Doña Ana County, where she and her husband Robert made their home.
Provenance
- Verso backing inscribed with the artist's own address — Rt. 2, Box 843, Las Cruces, New Mexico — establishing direct origin from the Lanphere household
- Consigned from a Doña Ana County collection
CONDITION
Good. The canvas presents cleanly with stable paint and no glass over the surface. The gilt wood frame shows scuffing and minor loss to the molding, with light fraying to the linen liner at one lower corner.
DIMENSIONS / SPECIFICATIONS
- Overall (framed): 16 3/4" H × 13 3/4" W × 2" D
- Visible (sight): 11 1/4" H × 8 1/4" W
- Medium: Oil on stretched canvas
- Signed: "ILSE" lower right; "I. Lanphere / Rt. 2, Box 843 / Las Cruces, N.M." on verso
- Frame: Gilt wood, egg-and-dart molding, linen liner, no glass
