Mrs. Gabriel Manigault (Margaret Izard)

Mrs. Gabriel Manigault (Margaret Izard)

Walter Robertson

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Margaret Izard (1768-1824) of Charleston married the planter and amateur architect Gabriel Manigault in 1785. This portrait relates to the oil by Gilbert Stuart in the Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, New York.

The American Wing

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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The American Wing's ever-evolving collection comprises some 20,000 works of art by African American, Euro American, Latin American, and Native American men and women. Ranging from the colonial to early-modern periods, the holdings include painting, sculpture, works on paper, and decorative arts—including furniture, textiles, ceramics, glass, silver, metalwork, jewelry, basketry, quill and bead embroidery—as well as historical interiors and architectural fragments.