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 | A Street in Algiers 1880 | 
Although
the title of the painting refers to Algiers, most sources believe the painting
was actually done in Morocco at Tangier.
In 1880 Sargent and his party of friends traveled from Spain to Morocco
(and what is vaguely referred to as "North Africa") for about six
weeks. His exact itenery during this time, from what I can tell, is... | GA | igrkio |
 | Moorish Buildings on a Cloudy Day 1879-80 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY | GA | igrkio | |
 | Open Doorway, Morocco 1879-1880 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY | GA | igrkio | |
 | Courtyard, Tetuan, Morocco 1879-1880 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY | GA | igrkio | |
 | Moorish Buildings in Sunlight 1879-1880 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY | GA | igrkio | |
 | White Walls in Sunlight, Morocco 1879-1880 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY | GA | igrkio | |
 | Sketch of Arabs (figures) 1879-1880 Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA | GA | igrkio | |
 | Donkeys in a Desert 1880 Private Collection Unknown, USA |
Notes:
Special
thanks to Colleen Kollar Zorn, with A.J. Kollar Fine Paintings LLC, of Seattle,
Washington
USA, a friend of the JSS Gallery, for sending along the image and info.
From: Colleen Kollar Zorn
co
ll een@ajkollar.com
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004
This work
is currently offered for sale by A.J. Kollar Fine Paintings,... | GA | igrkio |
 | Bedouin Women 1880 Private Collection Unknown, USA | GA | igrkio | |
 | Cote Algerienne et mauresque,Cote pres d'Alger, (Algerian and mauresque coast, beach of Algiers) 1880 |
Painting
appears to be fishermen drying their nets on the beach somewhat in theme with
what he would do in Egypt in 1890-1891:
Egyptians Raising Water from the Nile
1890-91
Dating of
the work is difficult as I can put Sargent NEAR Algeria any number of years but
not IN Algeria any specific year. Possibly he was there as... | GA | igrkio |
 | Arab Street Scene c. 1880 Private Collection Unknown, USA | GA | igrkio | |
 | Incensing the Veil c. 1880 |
Fumée d'Ambre Gris
1880
The
painting is inscribed to Dr Pozzi
Dr. Samuel Jean
Pozzi at Home
1881
Note:
Special
thanks to Francesca Elizabeth Miller of California, for being a friend of the
JSS Gallery, and helping with this paitning.
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 | Madame Ramon Subercaseaux 1880 Private Collection Unknown, USA |
Madame
Subercaseaux (born 1860) twenty years old at the time, was the newlywed wife
(married 1879) of the Chilean consul to Paris. The following is from her
diary.
It was in
Paris during the Spring of 1880 that Sargent painted my portrait which won the
prize the following year [2nd place at the Salon]. Shortly before this, when we
were visiting... | GA | igrkio |
 | Seated Woman with Fan (from scrapbook) c. 1880 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY | GA | igrkio | |
 | Edward Burckhardt 1880 |
Bibliography:
Ormond,
Richard and Elaine Kilmurray, "John Singer Sargent: complete paintings; volume 1, The
early portraits," New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1998, no. 31.
Riggs, David
B., 1990, 1996.
McKibbin, David, "Sargent's
Boston," Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, 1956.
Illustration:
Ormond,
Richard and Elaine... | GA | igrkio |
 | Peter Augustus Jay 1880 Private Collection Unknown, USA |
Notes:
Image taken
from Dovercards, however documentation and dating from The Smithsonian
Catalogue of Works
Bibliography:
Ormond,
Richard and Elaine Kilmurray, "John Singer Sargent: complete paintings;
volume 1, The early portraits," New Haven, CT: Yale University Press,
1998, no. 32.
McKibbin,
David, "Sargent's Boston," Boston:... | GA | igrkio |
 | Bedroom c. 1880-82 Private Collection Unknown, USA |
An early
watercolor sometime between 1880 and 1882. It is probably his bedroom on one of
his travels.
For
discussion of, see
View from a Window
Genoa, Italy
1911
| GA | igrkio |
 | The Standard Bearer (after Frans Hals) 1880 Private Collection Unknown, USA |
This is a
copy of the figure on the far right of Frans Hals’ Banquet of the
Officers of St George Civic Guard, (Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem).
Frans Hals
Banquet of the Officers of the St George Civic Guard in Haarlem 1627
Notes:
Literature
Christie’s
London, Catalogue of Pictures and Drawings of the Late John Singer... | GA | igrkio |
 | Two Heads from the Banquet of the Officers (after Frans Hals) 1880 Private Collection Unknown, USA |
Frans Hals
Banquet of the Officers of the St George Civic Guard in Haarlem 1627
Notes:
Agnew's
Gallery
43 Old Bond
Street
London, England W1X 4BA
Phone:
0207-629 6176
Fax:
0207-629 4359
Email:
agnews@agnewsgallery.co.uk
Was asking
$225,000
| GA | igrkio |
 | Portrait of Ralph Curtis on the Beach at Scheveningen 1880 High Museum of Art Atlanta, GA |
Ralph Wormeley Curtis (1854-1922)
American painter, was Boston born and a graduate of Harvard. He
eventually lived in Europe and was a painter of portraits, genres, and
interiors.
Ralph and
John would become good friends. They were 2nd cousins (their father's were
cousins) though they didn't meet until Curtis went to Paris to study art.... | GA | igrkio |
 | Francis Brooks Chadwick 1880 Private Collection Unknown, USA |
Francis
Brooks Chadwick (1850 - 1943) was an American painter best known for his
landscapes. He studied at Harvard and arrived in Paris in 1873. It was Chadwick
that would introduce Sargent to John's distant cousin
Ralph Wormeley Curtis. Curtis had been a friend of
Chadwick's from Harvard.
In 1880,
all three went off to the Netherlands to study... | GA | igrkio |
 | Madame Errazuriz c. 1880-02 Private Collection Unknown, USA |
Madame
Eugenia Errazuriz née Eufenia
Huic (1858-1951) was born into a wealthy
silver-mining family in Chile and married painter José Tomás Errazuriz in
1880. José was the brother
of Ramon Subercaseaux who was the Chilean consul to
Paris. Sargent had painted Madame Subercaseaux
in 1880. The newlyweds (Madame Errazuriz and her
husband) moved... | GA | igrkio |
 | Gordon Greenough 1880 | GA | igrkio | |
 | Portrait of Jean Joseph Marie Carries 1880 |
Carrièrs was a Parisian sculptor and had exhibited portrait busts at the Salon
in 1879 and 1881. Carrièrs was one year older
than Sargent. The painting, like many he did of
friends, shows Sargent at his freest and most
expressive.
There is no
way the image here shows adequately the thick paint, and the rapid brush
strokes of this portrait,... | GA | igrkio |
 | Mrs. Charles Gifford Dyer 1880 Art Institute of Chicago Chicago, IL |
Mary
Anthony, the wife of Charles Gifford Dyer (1851-1912) American painter best
known for his landscpae paintings Italy, Egypt and
Syria.
Older than Sargent, Dyer had studied in Paris under Jacquesson de la Chevreuse and
had entered the Royal academy at Munich in 1871.
Dyer spent
most of his professional life between Munich and Paris with six... | GA | igrkio |
 | Boy in Costume early 1880's Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY |
Note:
Apparently
incorrectly marked 1869
Exhibitions
John Singer
Sargent, An Exhibition --
Whitney Museum, NY & The Art Institute of Chicago 1986-1987
| GA | igrkio |
 | Portrait of George Hitchcock 1880 Private Collection Unknown, USA |
George
Hitchcock (1850-1913) was an American painter. Born in
Providence, Rhode Island, the son of Charles Hitchcock, a portrait painter.
After receiving his law degree from Harvard in 1874 and working briefly as an
attorney in Providence and New York, he decided to pursue a career as an
artist. He left for Europe in 1877 and studied in London,... | GA | igrkio |
 | Head of an Italian Woman 1880 | GA | igrkio | |
 | A Venetian Woman in a Scarlet Shawl ("Gigia Viani") 1880 |
A full
length portrait of Gigia Viani was painted in 1882:
Italian Girl with Fan
1882
Ralph Wormeley Curtis
(1854-1922)
American painter
Gigia Viani
1880
Notes:
Bibliography
Richard Ormond,
John Singer Sargent: Paintings, Drawings, Watercolors (New York and London,
1970), p. 29
John Singer
Sargent,... | GA | igrkio |
 | A Lady 1880 |
Notes
Special
thanks to Colleen Kollar Zorn, with A.J. Kollar Fine Paintings LLC, of Seattle,
Washington
USA, a friend of the JSS Gallery, for sending along a better image.
Forum
"A Lady" 1880 Sold by a Museum?
From: B cca esq@aol.com
Date: 10/10/99
I was
wondering whether you could direct me to more information on John... | GA | igrkio |
 | Washerwomen 1880 | GA | igrkio | |
 | Campo dei Frari, Venice 1880 Corcoran Gallery of Art Washington, D.C. |
Campo means
public square or space, so this is the courtyard right off the canal facing the
church Frari.
Sargent's
early watercolors can be significantly different in tone to his later work.
Generally you see careful brushwork
and tight, small, and much more controlled washes of color than his later work.
He often, but not always, used this... | GA | igrkio |
 | Study of Donatello's Saint John 1880 |
The date of
this sketchs ares unknown, though I know he was painting the outside of the
Frari in 1880 and the brevity of the sketch falls in line with the same kind of
energy of the Two Studies for El Jaleo which were c. 1879-82.
See
Donatello's St. John in
Juxtaposition with Sargent's
Donatello
Italian sculptor, Florentine... | GA | igrkio |
 | Head of Donatello's Saint John, Frari, Venice 1880 | GA | igrkio | |
 | Monument to Benedetto Brugnolo da Legnago, Church of Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari, Venice 1880 | GA | igrkio | |
 | Man in a Hat c. 1880-1882 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY | GA | igrkio | |
 | Gondoliers c. 1882 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY | GA | igrkio | |
 | Gondolier c. 1880-1900 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY | GA | igrkio | |
 | Venetian Canal, Palazzo Corner 1880 Private Collection Unknown, USA | GA | igrkio | |
 | Sketch of canal with boats 1880 Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA | GA | igrkio | |
 | Ramon Subercaseaux c. 1880 |
Born in
Valparaiso which is right on the coast and not too far from the capital,
Ramón (1854-1937) was the Chilean Counsul to
Paris. At twenty-six years old he was only two years older than John.
Ramón was active in the artistic community, cultivating a number of
friends. He was himself an amateur artist.
His career
was quite successful,... | GA | igrkio |
 | Cafe on the Riva degli Schiavoni 1880 |
Sargent is
positioned himself just east of the Piazzetta at San Marco looking west. The domed
building across the canal is the Santa Maria della Salute. The Libreria is straight ahead beyond the steps and
bridge; and the front facade of the Palazzo Ducaleis on the far right.
Further
west along the Riva degli Schiavoni he paints in oil.
... | GA | igrkio |
 | The Entrance to the Grand Canal 1880/1882 Private Collection Unknown, USA |
Probably
the most tourist view painting he did of Venice. We are looking sort of
northwest from the lagoon. You can see the Palazzo Ducale
and the campanile of San Marco to the right and the domed Santa
Maria della Salute to the left.
Note:
Offered by Sothbeys but not sold; 5/27/1999; Lot 110; estimated
$50,000-$75,000
The source
didn't date... | GA | igrkio |
 | Campo Behind the Scuola di San Racco, Venice c. 1880 Private Collection Unknown, USA | GA | igrkio | |
 | A Street in Venice c. 1880-82 |
Venetian Alleys and Passageways
(Photos)
The
textured walls and the lighted opening at the end, lends itself well to this
great composition of perspective and depth -- a city which seems to be made for
such studies -- a city rich in interesting viscosity and corridors.
Notes:
Exhibitions
Sargent in
Italy, 2002-2003
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 | Venice 1880-82 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY | GA | igrkio | |
 | Venetian Glass Workers 1880-82 Art Institute of Chicago Chicago, IL |
In many of
Sargent’s Venetian Studies of 1880 and 1882 he shows Venetian women
stringing glass beads for the tourist trade. In a footnote of Linda Ayres
essay, she explains that what they are holding are long colored glass tubes.
These glass
tubes (also called cane) were probably made in Murano, then cut to bead size
and passed on to women... | GA | igrkio |
 | The Bead Stringers of Venice 1880-82 |
The
painting, an unfinished sketch, shows bead stringers assembling the beads as
they sit outside in a small alley or corridor. The two nearest women face an
open door, possibly a bead shop similar to what Sargent
painted in Venetian Glass Workers (thumbnail). Apparently whatever he was
planning for the doorway, he grew frustrated and scraped, or... | GA | igrkio |
 | A Venetian Interior 1880-82 Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Williamstown, MA |
Venetian Bead Stringers
1880/1882
Another
version of this scene is done in Venetian Bead Stringers:
Notes:
Exhibitions
John Singer
Sargent, An Exhibition -- Whitney Museum, NY & The Art Institute of Chicago
1986-1987
Gondola
Days: Isabella Stewart Gardner and the Palazzo Barbaro Circle, 2004
See the
year in... | GA | igrkio |
 | Venetian Bead Stringers 1880 or 1882 Albright-Knox Art Gallery Buffalo, NY |
The process
of stringing beads involved gathering the beads onto wires from a small wooden
tray with a bowel type trough placed in their lap. These two seated women
appear to be sharing one of these wooden trays, as another woman looks on.
The
painting was made in the same Palazzo corridor as A Venetian Interior. For
whatever reason, the... | GA | igrkio |
 | Venetian Interior 1880-82 |
This is a
good example of John's use of light in a picture. Notice the way it filters in
from an unseen doorway at frame right, the light at the far end, as well as how
light and shadows manifest themselves on the different figures.
Note:
Exhibitions
John Singer
Sargent, An Exhibition --
Whitney Museum, NY & The Art Institute of Chicago... | GA | igrkio |
 | Campo Sant' Agnese, Venezia 1880, 1882 Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College Wellesley, MA |
From:
L. Passalacqua
in ve
ce2@charter.net
Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2005
I spent ten
days in Venice in January, 2005,
[and took the photo below].
Campo Sant' Agnese is still there and still looks remarkably like the
painting. You can stand, or sit, right where Mr. Sargent did.
Please
enjoy them, I like your website very much.
In... | GA | igrkio |
 | Venetian Water Carriers c. 1880, 1882 Worcester Art Museum Worcester, MA |
From: Worcester Art Museum
Although
seemingly informal, if not spontaneous, in both design and execution, Venetian
Water Carriers is actually carefully conceived. Within a composition centered
around rectangular forms (the door and its frame, the well and its base),
Sargent subtly balanced the figure of the woman straining to carry a pail... | GA | igrkio |
 | Pope Paul III after Titian Early 1880 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY | GA | igrkio | |
 | Dr. Samuel Jean Pozzi at Home 1881 |
Dr. Samuel
Jean Pozzi (1846-1918)
Subject: Major Paintings
From: Georgie @
Pen Drago
n1969@aol.com
Date: 3/12/ 2001
I've seen
in person in the Armand Hammer collection and was just hoping to find it here
[in Major paintings] . . .
It's a
portrait, but more than a piece of a singular subject, it's an "ode to
red" featuring an... | GA | igrkio |
 | Femme avec Fourrures (Woman with Furs) c. 1880-1885 Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Williamstown, MA |
At one
point it was thought that the person Sargent gave
this to (D. Vergeses) was the subject but it was
later believed that it probbaly wasn't.
From Andy Yelenak
(Fri, Oct 24, 2008)
I've
attached a shot of the museum's title card too. This is a small painting. I've
included a poor shot of it in it's
frame just for scale. I love the... | GA | igrkio |
 | Miss Poppy Graeme 1881 |
This same
year Sargent painted Robert
Farquharson. According to Charles Merrill Mount, the painting is also
inscribed: "To my friend Mr. Farquharson", 24 x 20 ½ , and as
of the 1950's the painting was held with the family.
Dr Robert
Farquharson of Finzean (1875-1899)
1881 ?
| GA | igrkio |
 | Portrait of Mrs. John Joseph Townsend (Catherine Rebecca Bronson) 1881 Private Collection Unknown, USA | GA | igrkio | |
 | Young Girl c. 1881-1882 Baltimore Museum of Art Baltimore, MD | GA | igrkio | |
 | Dr. Robert Farquharson of Finzean (1875-1899) 1881 |
From: Aberdeen Art Gallery and Museums
The sitter
was the older brother of Joseph Farquharson RA who
was a friend of John Singer Sargent. This dashing
portrait illustrates very clearly Sargent's bold use
of brushwork and limited palette. Robert Farquharson
was laird of Finzean near Banchory
and also the member of Parliament for West... | GA | igrkio |
 | Violet Paget (Vernon Lee) 1881 |
Vernon Lee, was a pen name for Violet Paget (1856-1935). She was a
childhood friend of John Sargent, after growing up
together they both, it appears, were involved in the same art community. She
was a prolific novelist, essayist and critic, and had written at least one book
about the nature of beauty in Art.
Vernon was
close to John and his... | GA | igrkio |
 | Sketchbook 1880 Man on Sofa with Painter c. 1880-1881 Harvard University Art Museums Cambridge, MA |
The page
from the sketchbook is double sided. On the reverse is a sketch of a Dancer for
El Jaleo (my title since there doesn't appear to be one).
Sketchbook 1880
Dancer for El Jaleo
c. 1880-1881
| GA | igrkio |
 | Violet 1881 Private Collection Unknown, USA |
Violet Sargent (1870-1955) was John's youngest sister. After
studying at the Accademia delle
Belle Arti, she married Francis Ormond. Of the three
siblings, Violet was the only one to marry and she would have six children (see
Genealogy). She, along with her daughters would be featured in so many of
John's paintings -- really too long to list (in... | GA | igrkio |
 | Portrait of Edouard and Marie-Loise Pailleron 1881 |
The
Children's parents were painted by John two years previous:
Monsieur and Madame
Pailleron
1879
Notes:
Exhibitions
John Singer
Sargent, An Exhibition -- Whitney Museum, NY & The Art Institute of Chicago
1986-1987
Great
Expectations: John Singer Sargent Painting Children; 2004-2005
| GA | igrkio |
 | Lady with the Rose (Miss Charlotte Louise Burckhardt) 1882 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY |
From: Wonsug
Jung
10/9/99
. . .the woman Sargent had [a]
relationship with her right before she got married was Charlotte Louise
Burckhardt (Lady with the Rose, which is hanging in the Metropolitan Museum of
Art . . . I have read somewhere
that there was even a talk of an engagement. She died so young, not long after
her... | GA | igrkio |
 | Mr. & Mrs. John White Field 1882 | GA | igrkio | |
 | Madame Paul Escudier c. 1882-1884 Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Williamstown, MA |
Bust
portrait of Madame Paul Escudier (1861-1950) wearing a black coat with diamond
pin and a black hat with white ribbons. (SIRIS)
Sargent
emphasizes the sitter's hat, which is central to her overall appearance and
style. A decorative mound of wide white ribbons on the top of her hat makes a
bold statement against her black dress and a painted... | GA | igrkio |
 | Madame Paul Escudier (1) 1882 Art Institute of Chicago Chicago, IL |
Ormond and
Kilmurray say in their book, Early Portraits (p.63), that not a lot is known
about this painting and its origin. In 1923 the painting was purchased by
Charles Deering, a close friend of Sargent.
Madame Paul
Escudier
1882
Notes:
This is a
new aquisition to the Art Institute as of 2008 (acquisition from (Saz)... | GA | igrkio |
 | Mademoiselle Boussenet-Duclos 1882 Private Collection Unknown, USA |
References:
Ormond,
Richard and Elaine Kilmurray, "John Singer Sargent: complete paintings; volume 1, The
early portraits," New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1998, no. 51.
Illustration:
Ormond,
Richard and Elaine Kilmurray, "John Singer Sargent: complete paintings; volume 1, The
early portraits," New Haven, CT: Yale... | GA | igrkio |
 | Portrait of Arthur Daintrey c. 1882 Private Collection Unknown, USA |
Daintrey
was an English [1] art student in Paris who enrolled in Alexandre Cabanel's
atelier in 1872 at the age of 29. He was born in 1843 and if the dating of this
painting is correct, he would have been 39 when Sargent painted him.
Other
artists in Cabanel's atelier in the 70's included Henry Bacon, Frank Fowler,
Charles Stuart Forbes, Kenyon... | GA | igrkio |
 | Madame Errazuriz or The Lady in Black c. 1882-1883 Private Collection Unknown, USA | GA | igrkio | |
 | El Jaleo 1882 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Boston, MA |
Q. What is the meaning of El Jaleo?
I just
viewed a video called American Visions: the Gilded Age, done for PBS in 1997
written and narrated by Robert Hughes. In it he talks about El Jaleo. He says
it means the spontaneous clapping and shouting that comes like an
"Olay!" at the apex of a performance.
So what
we're seeing is the zenith of the... | GA | igrkio |
 | Sketch After "El Jaleo" c. 1879-82 Private Collection Unknown, USA |
Note:
Sale
Sold at
Sotheby's New York, 30 Nov 2005; Session 1, Sale No. N08134, Lot 41; $228,000
USD (was estimated
125,000—175,000 USD)
Sold
Sotheby's; 12/1/1994; Lot 10; $76,750
This drawing
will be included in a forthcoming volume of the J.S. Sargent catalogue
raisonné being compiled by Richard Ormond and Elaine Kilmurray,... | GA | igrkio |
 | Study for El Jaleo (222) c. 1879-82 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Boston, MA | GA | igrkio | |
 | Study for El Jaleo (223) c. 1879-82 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Boston, MA | GA | igrkio | |
 | Study for El Jaleo (10252) c. 1879-82 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Boston, MA | GA | igrkio | |
 | Study for El Jaleo (10253) c. 1879-82 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Boston, MA | GA | igrkio | |
 | Study for El Jaleo c. 1879-82 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Boston, MA | GA | igrkio | |
 | Study for El Jaleo (2) c. 1879-82 | GA | igrkio | |
 | Man's Head, study for a figure in the painting "El Jaleo" 1882 | GA | igrkio | |
 | Study for Seated Figures for "El Jaleo" c. 1882 |
Bibliography:
Evan
Charteris, John Sargent (New York, NY, 1927), p. 282
Charles
Merrill Mount, John Singer Sargent, a Biography [1st ed.] (New York, NY, 1955),
no. K8223
Richard
Ormond, "Sargent's El Jaleo", Fenway Court, p. 15, repr. p. 16 as
fig. 14
Richard
Ormond, John Singer Sargent: Paintings, Drawings, Watercolors (New York, NY... | GA | igrkio |
 | Study for Seated Figures for "El Jaleo" (2) c. 1882 |
Bibliography:
Evan
Charteris, John Sargent (New York, NY, 1927), p. 282
Martin
Birnbaum, John Singer Sargent, January 12, 1856-April 15, 1925; a conversation
piece (New York, NY, 1941), p. 57, repr. in b/w
Charles
Merrill Mount, John Singer Sargent, a Biography [1st ed.] (New York, NY, 1955),
no. K8222
Richard
Ormond, "Sargent's El Jaleo",... | GA | igrkio |
 | Madame Allouard-Jouan c. 1882 | GA | igrkio | |
 | Isabel Valle (Mrs. George Austen) 1882 Private Collection Unknown, USA |
References:
Ormond,
Richard and Elaine Kilmurray, "John Singer Sargent: complete paintings;
volume 1, The early portraits," New Haven, CT: Yale University Press,
1998, no. 48.
McKibbin,
David, "Sargent's Boston," Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, 1956.
"City
Art Museum Catalogue of Paintings," St. Louis: City Art Museum, St.... | GA | igrkio |
 | Albert de Belleroche (half portrait) c. 1882 Private Collection Unknown, USA |
Albert de
Belleroche (1864-1944) was a fellow art student in Carolus-Duran's studio. He
joined the atelier in '82 at the age of eighteen making him the Freshman to the
Upper Classman Sargent who was twenty-six. The dedication to "baby
Milbank" is actually the senior Sargent affectionately/teasingly nodding
to the new kid --
"Milbank" being... | GA | igrkio |
 | Paul Helleu (watercolor) c. 1882-1885 Private Collection Unknown, USA | GA | igrkio | |
 | Albert de Belleroche c. 1882 |
Albert de
Belleroche (half portrait)
c. 1882
Notes:
Special
thanks to Malcolm Armstrong, of New York City, a friend of the JSS Gallery, for
sending me the link to this image.
| GA | igrkio |
 | Portrait of Mrs. Daniel Sargent Curtis 1882 |
Mrs. Daniel Sargent Curtis
c. 1882
She was the
mother of Ralph Wormeley Curtis -- cousin to Sargent and fellow American artist
in Paris. The painting is very dark, though in person you can see gradations of
dark colors for the background.
John would
later paint her with her husband, son and daughter-in-law in 1898
... | GA | igrkio |
 | Venetian Courtyard c. 1882 |
From: Sothebys
Venetian
Loggia was painted during the years 1880-82, an intensely fertile period for
Sargent—a time of extensive travel and the search for new and exotic
subject matter, when the confluence of fresh experiences and varied stimuli fed
the artist’s creative senses and led to some of his most visually
intriguing and original... | GA | igrkio |
 | Pressing the Grapes Florentine Wine Cellar 1882 Beaverbrook Art Gallery Fredericton, NB |
When I saw this in Denver (July 2003) I found it to have an overall
purple tone in the painting evoking, obviously, the wine process. What you can't see very well in
this image are boys turning a large wine press inside the room below and to the
right of the window.
Exhibitions
Sargent
and Italy, 2002-2003
| GA | igrkio |
 | Study for a Venetian Scene 1880/1882 Private Collection Unknown, USA | GA | igrkio | |
 | Gondolier (1) 1881-1882 Private Collection Unknown, USA | GA | igrkio | |
 | The Sulphur Match 1882 | GA | igrkio | |
 | Italian Girl with Fan 1882 Cincinnati Art Museum Cincinnati, OH |
The
painting is of the Venetian model Gigia Viani. She is used by John continuously in most of his
Venetian studies. This particular portrait stands out from his other Venetian
work in more ways than one. First of all, you can't dismiss its enormous size. At
2.38 meters high (7.8 feet) it is clearly larger than life. It is also one of
the few... | GA | igrkio |
 | Venetian Onion Seller 1882 |
The
painting is very much in the vernacular of Velázquez.
Notes:
Special
thanks go to Cristina,
<xinabonita@mixmail.com> for telling me about four
paintings held at the Thyssen-Bornemiseza museum.
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 | Young Woman in Black Skirt 1880-82 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY | GA | igrkio | |
 | Head of Venetian Woman c. 1860-1882 Private Collection Unknown, USA |
Exibitions
"John
Singer Sargent Retrospective" -- shown breifly at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston June 23 - September 26, 1999
"Sargent's Women" Adelson
Galleries, New York , November 12th
- December 13th, 2003
A very
special thanks to an anonymous owner for allowing this painting to be shown
publicly at the "Sargent's... | GA | igrkio |
 | Unknown Dancer (Untitled) 1879-1882 |
Recently I
received a letter (1999):
My uncle
has just passed away. He was an art collector. I found a painting that is a
John Singer Sargent. It was purchased from the Detroit Institute of Arts in the
early 70's. It is being cleaned at this time. I wanted to know if you might
have an idea to the name of this portrait . . .
Lori
P. ... | GA | igrkio |
 | Street in Venice 1882 National Gallery of Art Washington, D.C. |
Street in Venice
Closeup
September
7, 1999
Natasha,
My daughter
has the Sargent print: Street in Venice. . . We both are generally people who
see the glass half full rather than
half empty and I viewed the young girl as a nice young girl returning home
after a late night party and dance. Although my daughter thought she is... | GA | igrkio |
 | Venetian Street 1880-1882 |
Below is a
study John did for the finsihed above painting:
Street Scene in Venice
1882
Exhibitions
John Singer
Sargent, An Exhibition -- Whitney Museum, NY & The Art Institute of Chicago
1986-1987
Sargent's
Women, Adelson Galleries, New York,
2003
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- John Singer Sargent
