Mosquito
Nets
John Singer
Sargent
-- American painter
1908
Detroit
Institute of
Arts, Michigan
Oil on canvas
56.5 x 71.8
cm (22 1/4
x 28 1/4 in.)
Founders
Society Purchase,
Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund, and Founders Society Purchase,
Robert H. Tannahill Foundation Fund, 1993.18
Jpg: ARC
The painting was done in
Valdemosa,
Majorca, where they were spending an autumn. Sargent's older
sister
Emily, is in the chair (foreground) reading a book, with their friend
Eliza
Wedgwood, a member of the famous porcelain manufacturing family, on the
sofa (background), either reading or writing a letter.
Eliza said of it,
"Sargent painted
in oils such an amusing picture of Emily and me--in what John called
'Garde
Mangers,' Emily's invention for keeping out mosquitoes."
(American
Tonalism Detroit Institute of Arts)
Notes:
Bibliography:
Ormond, Richard, "John Singer Sargent: paintings, drawings,
watercolors," New York: Harper & Row, 1970.
Illustration:
Ormond, Richard, "John Singer Sargent," New York: Harper & Row,
1970, pl. 101.
SIRIS IAP 81890077
CMM K0811
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