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 | The Birthday (Fete Familiale) 1887 Minneapolis Institute of Arts Minneapolis, MN | 
From: Minneapolis Institute of Arts
[This]
depicts the family of the well-known French artists Albert Besnard (1849-1934)
and his wife Charlotte Dubray (1855-1931), whom Sargent had befriended by 1883.
(Minneapolis
Institute of Arts)
Paul Albert Besnard
Madame Besnard
1884
Notes:
Exhibitions
John Singer
Sargent, An... | GA | igrkio |
 | The Black Brook c.1908 |
The
painting is of Rose-Marie Ormond, (Sargent's niece), daughter to Violet Sargent
Ormond, (Sargent's youngest sister).
Rose-Marie Ormond
(later Madame Robert André-Michel)
Date?
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 | The Blind Musicians 1912 | GA | igrkio | |
 | The Borghese Balustrade Watercolor on paper |
Note:
Special
thanks to Tony Wearing, a friend of the JSS Gallery, for finding this image and
sending it to us
From: Tony Wearing
tony. wea
ring@btinternet.com
Date: Apr
14, 2006
I came
across a picture of the Borghese Balustrade by John Singer Sargent in a book
about Cliveden, home of William Waldorf Astor.
The book is
Cliveden:
The... | GA | igrkio |
 | The Breakfast Table 1884 |
From: Harvard
The figure
is Sargent's younger sister, Violet (later Mrs.
Francis Ormond). The picture was almost certainly painted at the home of his
parents in Nice. It appears on an easel beside Sargent's
Madame Gautreau in a photograph of Sargent in his studio of 1884, in the Smithsonian
Institution, Washington DC.
Other
alternate previous... | GA | igrkio |
 | The Brook 1907 | GA | igrkio | |
 | The Brook (wc) 1907 Grand Rapids Art Museum Grand Rapids, MI | GA | igrkio | |
 | The Candelabrum 1885 Private Collection Unknown, USA | GA | igrkio | |
 | The Cashmere Shawl 1910 Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA | GA | igrkio | |
 | The Chess Game 1907 Private Collection Unknown, USA |
Sargent was
an avid chess player and was a game he often played on his painting trips.
In the
summer of 1907 Sargent takes a trip to Purtud which is a little town in the Val
d'Aosta on the Italian-Swiss border and there he paints his nieces and
friends.
A Game of Chess (Sketch)
Just like
his formal commissioned... | GA | igrkio |
- John Singer Sargent
