Preview | Description | Artist | Notes |
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Portrait Sketch of a Seated Woman by John Singer Sargent c. 1890-1900 Corcoran Gallery of Art Washington, D.C. | Sargent, John Singer |
Note:
The NYU Grey Gallery had an exhibition of this drawing,
among others, August 31 – October 30, 1999 called "John Singer
Sargent, Draughtsman: Works from the Corcoran Gallery of Art". The image
online at NYU, I believe is inverted.
Special thanks to Andy Holzopfel, of Baltimore, Maryland, a
friend of the JSS Gallery, for sending me... | |
Poor Artist's Cupboard by Charles Bird King c. 1815 Corcoran Gallery of Art Washington, D.C. | King, Charles Bird | ||
Oyster Gatherers of Cancale by John Singer Sargent 1878 Corcoran Gallery of Art Washington, D.C. | Sargent, John Singer |
Three days of arid Paris
contain less delights than one Cancalaise hour.
When
Sargent visited there in 1877, many of the men were away -- as they would often
be through the nineteenth century -- sailing far into the ocean bound for the
rich fisheries of Newfoundland, gambling big on a catch that might pay
handsomely. Fathers, sons, brothers,... | |
Mrs. Henry White by John Singer Sargent 1883 Corcoran Gallery of Art Washington, D.C. | Sargent, John Singer | ||
Mount Corcoran by Albert Bierstadt 1877. Corcoran Gallery of Art Washington, D.C. | Bierstadt, Albert | Description: View looking across a blue-green river with mountains on the opposite shore shrouded in low-hanging clouds. In the foreground a black bear lumbers toward the water's edge. In the sky above the sun breaks through the clouds, highlighting a snow-capped Mount Corcoran in the distance. | |
Man Screaming (Study for Hell) by John Singer Sargent c. 1895-1910 Corcoran Gallery of Art Washington, D.C. | Sargent, John Singer | ||
Madame Edouard Pailleron by John Singer Sargent 1879 Corcoran Gallery of Art Washington, D.C. | Sargent, John Singer |
This is
Sargent's first full length portrait. Notice the change of focus of the grass
around her face compared to the trees and stone railing of the Madame
Pailleron's parents country estate at Ronjoux, Chambéry, Savoy in the
south of France where this was painted.
In 1880
Sargent showed this painting along with the subject painting... | |
Landscape With Deer, North Carolina by Joshua Shaw ca. 1818-1821 Corcoran Gallery of Art Washington, D.C. | Shaw, Joshua | ||
Lady with a Mask by Thomas Wilmer Dewing ca. 1907. Corcoran Gallery of Art Washington, D.C. | Dewing, Thomas Wilmer | Description: Interior scene depicting a seated female figure holding an Asian mask in her right hand. In the background there is a long narrow tapestry hanging on the wall. | |
In The Land Of Promise, Castle Garden by Charles Frederick Ulrich 1884 Corcoran Gallery of Art Washington, D.C. | Ulrich, Charles Frederick |
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