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 | Violet Sargent (Bench) c. 1883 Taft Museum of Art Cincinnati, OH | GA | igrkio | |
 | Violet Sargent c.1883 Private Collection Unknown, USA | GA | igrkio | |
 | Unfinished copy of Madane X 1884 | GA | igrkio | |
 | Thistles c. 1883-1884 Private Collection Unknown, USA | GA | igrkio | |
 | The Viscountess of Poilloue of Saint-Perier (1850-1897) 1883 Musee d'Orsay Paris, France | 
Exhibitions
La peinture
américaine dans les collections du Musée du Louvre,
Blérancourt, Musée national de la coopération
franco-américaine, 14 mars - 30 septembre 1984;
J. S.
Sargent, Paris, Centre culturel américain, 1963, n°6.
Bibliography
J. S.
Sargent, Paris, Centre culturel américain, 1963, cat., n°6, repr.
pl.... | GA | igrkio |
 | The Misses Vickers 1884 |
From left
to right: Florence Evelyn "Evelyn" (18 years old), Mabel Frances (21
years old), and Clara Mildred "Mildred" (19 years old)
When
Sargent showed the painting at the Paris Salon in May of '85, they snubbed it
and called it "pseudo-Velasquez." When he showed it the following
year in London at Royal Academy's exhibition of '86, it was... | GA | igrkio |
 | The Dinner Table 1884 | 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 |
 | Study for Madame X (Madame Pierre Gautreau)[2] c. 1883 | GA | igrkio | |
 | Study for Madame X (Madame Pierre Gautreau)[1] c.1883 Private Collection Unknown, USA |
Madame X
In all of
Sargent's sketches of Madame Pierre Gauteau and it is believed to be over a
dozen total, not one sketch that I've seen shows her engaging us directly. This
was to be a very special portrait from the beginning and what we see here is
Sargent struggling with the idea of her final pose within his general... | GA | igrkio |
- John Singer Sargent
