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| 1884c John Singer Sargent in his studio in Paris |
John Singer Sargent (1866 - 1925) was an American artist, considered the "leading portrait painter of his generation" for his evocation of Edwardian era luxury. During his career he created approximately 900 oil paintings and more than 2000 watercolours, as well as countless sketches and charcoal drawings. His oeuvre documents worldwide travel, from Venice to the Tyrol, Corfu, the Middle East, Montana, Maine and Florida, amongst others.
For full biographical notes see part 1. For earlier works see parts 1 - 2 also.
This is part-3 of a 23-part post on the works of John Singer Sargent:
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| 1879 Mme. Francois Bulz ( Christine Blaze ) oil on canvas 54.8 x 46.7 cm The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA |
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| 1879 Persian Artifact with Faience Decoration graphite and watercolour on paper 32.4 x 24.1 cm Private Collection |
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| 1879 Robert de Cévrieux oil on canvas 84.4 x 47.9 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA |
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| 1879 Sketch of a Spanish Madonna oil on panel 35 x 26 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| 1879 Spanish Gypsy Dancer oil on canvas 46.4 x 28.6 cm Adelson Galleries, Boston, MA |
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| 1879 Spanish Gypsy Dancer oil on canvas 46.4 x 28.6 cm Private Collection |
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| 1879 The Little Fruit Seller oil on board 34.9 x 27.3 cm Private Collection |
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| 1879-80 Courtyard, Tetuan, Morocco oil on wood 26 x 34.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| 1879-80 Moorish Buildings on a Cloudy Day oil on wood 26 x 34.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| 1879-80 Open Doorway, Morocco oil on wood 35.2 x 26 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| 1879-80 Spanish Dance oil on canvas 89.5 x 84.5 cm The Hispanic Society of America, New York |
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| 1879-80 Study for Spanish Dance oil on canvas 48.3 x 39.7 cm Private Collection |
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| 1879-80 Study for Spanish Dance oil on canvas 72.4 x 48.3 cm Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO |
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| 1879-80 Turkey in a Courtyard oil on panel 35.6 x 26.7 cm Private Collection |
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| 1879-80 White Walls in Sunlight, Morocco oil on wood 26 x 34.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| 1879-80c A Spanish Figure oil on panel 33 x 28 cm Private Collection |
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| 1879-80c An Archway ( aka Moorish Archway ) oil on canvas 47 x 37.5 cm |
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| 1879-80c Spanish or Moorish Landscape oil on panel 26 x 34.6 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| 1879-80c The Balcony oil on panel 34.9 x 26.7 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| 1879-80c Two Nude Figures Standing on a Wharf oil on panel 34.9 x 26.7 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| 1879-82c A Spanish Woman oil on canvas 56 x 45.7 cm Private Collection |
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| 1879c A Spanish Madonna oil on panel 34 x 15 cm Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA |
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| 1879c Boats graphite and watercolour on paper 25.5 x 35.6 cm Private Collection |
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| 1879c Boats graphite and watercolour on paper 26.3 x 36.1 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| 1879c Boats in Harbour graphite and watercolour on paper 21.6 x 228 cm Private Collection |
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| 1879c Filet et Barque graphite and watercolour on paper 25.3 x 35 cm Private Collection |
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| 1879c Mediterranean Landscape oil on board 48.9 x 61.6 cm Private Collection |
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| 1879c Port Scene graphite and watercolour on paper 25.5 x 35.7 cm Private Collection |
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| 1879c Ships and Boats graphite and watercolour on paper 22.8 x 28 cm Private Collection |
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| 1879c The Alhambra Vase ( aka Persian Vase ) watercolour on paper 34.3 x 25.3 cm Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, MD |
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| 1879c The Descent from the Cross ( after Giovanni Tiepolo ) oil on panel 25.5 x 33 cm Private Collection |
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| 1879c The White House graphite, watercolour and gouache on paper 44.4 x 36.8 cm Private Collection |
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| 1879c Two Figures from 'The Three Graces' ( after Peter Paul Rubens ) oil on canvas 46.4 x 30.2 cm Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, Kansas *see below |
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| Peter Paul Rubens 1635c "The Three Graces" oil on canvas 221 x 181 cm Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid |
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| 1879c Wharf Scene ( aka The Dock ) oil on canvas 32.7 x 46 cm Private Collection |
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| 1880 A Moroccan Street Scene oil on panel 35 x 26 cm Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT |
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| 1880 A Parisian Beggar Girl oil on canvas 64.1 x 45.1 cm Private Collection |
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| 1880 A Venetian Woman in a Scarlet Shawl ( "Gigia Viani" ) oil on canvas 35.6 x 27.6 cm Harvard Art Museums / Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA |
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| 1880 Café on the Riva degli Schiavoni graphite and watercolour on paper 24.1 x 31.7 cm Private Collection |
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| 1880 Donkeys in a Desert oil on wood 25.1 x 33.6 cm Private Collection |
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| 1880 Francis Brooks Chadwick oil on panel 34.9 x 25.4 cm Private Collection |
1880 Fumée d'ambre gris (Smoke of Ambergris)
Fumée d'amber gris was painted after Sargent's trip to North Africa in the winter of 1879-80. The painting depicts an exotically dressed woman inhaling the smoke of ambergris - a resinous substance found in tropical seawater. Ambergris was believed to ward off evil spirits and also served as an aphrodisiac.
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| 1880 Fumée d'Ambre Gris ( Smoke of Ambergris ) oil on canvas 94 x 139.1 cm Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA |
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| 1880 Fumée d'ambre gris ( study ) oil on canvas 81.3 x 54 cm Private Collection |
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| 1880 Fumée d'amber gris watercolour on paper 31.1 x 19.7 cm Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA |
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| 1880 Gordon Greenough graphite 27.9 x 22.9 cm Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Amherst, MA |
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| 1880 Head of a Spanish Musician oil on canvas 49.5 x 36.8 cm Private Collection |
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| 1880 Jean Joseph Marie Carries oil on canvas 55.9 x 46.4 cm Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, NE |
1880 Ramón Subercaseaux
Born in Valparaiso, Chile, on the coast not far from the capital, Ramón Subercaseaux was the Chilean Consul to Paris. At twenty-six years of age he was only two years older than Sargent. Ramón was active in the artistic community, cultivating a number of friends. He himself was an amateur artist. In this painting the two share a covered gondola and, according to Ramón's son, the two were in the process of painting each other which they would exchange as gifts.
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| 1880c Ramón Subercaseaux oil on canvas 47 x 63.5 cm Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, TN |
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| 1880 Madame Ramón Subercaseaux oil on canvas 165.1 x 109.9 cm Private Collection |
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| 1880 Mary Turner Austin oil on canvas 91.4 x 73.7 cm Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT |
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| 1880 Moorish Buildings in Sunlight oil on panel 26 x 35.3 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| 1880 Moroccan Fortress, with Three Women in the Foreground ( aka Bedouin Women ) oil on panel 35.2 x 26 cm Private Collection |
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| 1880 Mrs Robertson oil on canvas 159 x 103 cm Watts Gallery, Compton, Surrey UK |
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| 1880 Mrs. Charles Gifford Dyer ( Mary Anthony ) oil on canvas 62.2 x 43.8 cm Art Institute of Chicago, IL |
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| 1880 Ralph Wormeley Curtis oil on canvas 27.9 x 35.6 cm High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA |
1880 Venetian Bead Stringers
An unfinished oil sketch - whatever Sargent was planning for the doorway he scraped and cut away the area, including the third figure in the foreground.
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| 1880 Venetian Bead Stringers oil on canvas 55.9 x 78.7 cm National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin |
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| 1880 Venice in Grey Weather oil on canvas Private Collection |
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| 1880 Wooded Landscape oil on canvas 54.6 x 64.8 cm Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, Laurel, MS |
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| 1880-81 Young Woman with a Black Skirt graphite and watercolour on wove paper 35.6 x 24.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
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| 1880-81c A Venetian Woman oil on panel 41.9 x 30.5 cm Private Collection |
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| 1880-81c Head of a Venetian Model watercolour on paper 29.2 x 22.9 cm Private Collection |
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| 1880-81c On the Lagoons, Venice graphite and watercolour on paper 25.4 x 34.9 cm Private Collection |
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| 1880-81c Palazzo Foscari graphite and watercolour on paper 32.1 x 23.5 cm Private Collection |
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| 1880-81c Palazzo Marcello watercolour on paper 32.4 x 23.5 cm Private Collection |
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| 1880-81c Ponte Panada, Fondamenta Nuove graphite and watercolour on paper 25.1 x 34.3 cm Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
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| 1880-81c Side Canal watercolour on paper 22.2 x 30.5 cm Private Collection |
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| 1880-81c Study for "Man and Woman on a Bed" graphite and black ink on white cardboard 26.5 x 22.7 Harvard Art Museums / Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA |
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| 1880-81c The Marinarezza, Venice graphite and watercolour on paper 22.9 x 30.5 cm Private Collection |
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| 1880-81c Venetian Women in the Palazzo Rezzonico oil on canvas 45.1 x 63.5 cm Private Collection |
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| 1880--85 Woman with Furs ( aka Portrait of D. Vergeses ) oil on canvas 28.7 x 22.2 cm Sterling and Francine Clark Institute, Williamstown, MA |
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