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 | White Walls in Sunlight, Morocco 1879-1880 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY | GA | igrkio | |
 | Washerwomen 1880 | GA | igrkio | |
 | Venice 1880-82 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY | 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 |
 | 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 |
 | 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 |
 | Venetian Canal, Palazzo Corner 1880 Private Collection Unknown, USA | 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 |
 | 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
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 | 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 |
- John Singer Sargent
