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 | Young Woman in Black Skirt 1880-82 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY | GA | igrkio | |
 | Young Girl c. 1881-1882 Baltimore Museum of Art Baltimore, MD | 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 |
 | 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 |
 | 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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 | 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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 | 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 |
 | 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 |
 | The Sulphur Match 1882 | 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 |
 | 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 El Jaleo (223) c. 1879-82 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Boston, MA | GA | igrkio | |
 | Study for El Jaleo (222) c. 1879-82 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Boston, MA | GA | igrkio | |
 | Study for El Jaleo (2) c. 1879-82 | GA | igrkio | |
 | Study for El Jaleo (10253) 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 c. 1879-82 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Boston, MA | GA | igrkio | |
 | Study for a Venetian Scene 1880/1882 Private Collection Unknown, USA | 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 |
 | Sortie de l’eglise, de l’eglise, Campo San Canciano, Venice 1882 National Gallery of Art Washington, D.C. |
From: The National Gallery of Art
. . . "Ignoring the traditional
tourist spots, [Sargent] explored the city’s
vernacular architecture and the daily life of its inhabitants. In Sortie de l’église, Campo San Canciano,
Venice (Leaving the Church), he focuses on the black-shawled
women crossing the square in the early morning light, which is... | 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
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 | 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 |
 | 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
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 | Portrait of Mrs. John Joseph Townsend (Catherine Rebecca Bronson) 1881 Private Collection Unknown, USA | 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 |
 | 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
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 | 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 |
 | Paul Helleu (watercolor) c. 1882-1885 Private Collection Unknown, USA | GA | igrkio | |
 | Mr. & Mrs. John White Field 1882 | 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 ?
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 | Man's Head, study for a figure in the painting "El Jaleo" 1882 | 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 |
 | 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 |
 | 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 Errazuriz or The Lady in Black c. 1882-1883 Private Collection Unknown, USA | GA | igrkio | |
 | Madame Allouard-Jouan c. 1882 | 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 |
 | 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 |
 | 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 |
 | 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 |
 | Gondolier (1) 1881-1882 Private Collection Unknown, USA | 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 |
 | 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 |
 | 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 |
 | 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 |
 | Daughters of Edward Darley Boit 1882 Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA |
In 1883
Sargent exhibited at the Salon his portrait which he called Portraits d'Enfants
or Daughters of Edward Darley Boit. Its composition was criticized for its
"four corners and a void" the children not having any relationship to
each other but the painting, overall, was widely praised. (Charteris, P57-58).
The painting is large and exactly... | 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 |
 | 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.
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 | A Street in Venice c. 1882 c. 1882 | GA | igrkio |
- John Singer Sargent
