Selection of works by John Singer Sargent
Below is a selection of paintings by John Singer Sargent (born January 12, 1856 - April 14, 1925) sorted by year.
John Singer Sargent was an American portraitist who grew up in Europe and spent most of his life in Europe. He was a particularly successful and influential painter around 1900. The personalities he portrays include numerous people from British and American society.
His life's work includes around 900 oil paintings, 2000 watercolors and countless sketches and charcoal drawings. His most famous works include " The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit ", " Portrait of Madame X ", " Mrs. Henry White ", " Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose " and his late work " Gassed ". The following is a cross-section from his entire creative period.
painting
Parisian creative period
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Dreaming Young Man ( Young Man in Reverie ) |
1878 | Oil on canvas | |||
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Head of a Capri Girl ( Head of a Capri Girl ) |
1878 | Oil on canvas | 43.2 x 30.5 cm. | Private collection | |
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Rosina | 1878 | Oil on canvas | Shows Sargent's muse Rosina Ferrara | ||
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Naked boy on the beach ( Nude Boy on the Beach ) |
1878 | Oil on canvas | Tate Gallery , London | ||
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capri | 1878 | Oil on canvas | 50.8 × 63.5 cm. | Warner Collection of Gulf States Paper Corporation, Alabama | |
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Dans les Oliviers, Rosina Ferrara | 1878 | Oil on canvas | Shows Sargent's muse Rosina Ferrara | ||
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Carmela Bertagna | 1879 | Oil on canvas | 59.7 x 49.5 cm. | Columbus Museum of Art , Ohio | |
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Carolus Duran | 1879 | Oil on canvas | 116.8 x 95.9 cm. | Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute , Massachusetts | Carolus-Durant taught John Singer Sargent for a few years from 1874. |
Édouard Pailleron | 1879 | Oil on canvas | 127 × 94 cm | Musée National du Château de Versailles | ||
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Jean-Joseph Marie Carriès | 1880 | Oil on canvas | |||
Fumée d'Ambre Gris | 1880 | Oil on canvas | 138.1 x 90.6 cm | Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute | Sargent showed the genre painting in 1880 during the Salon de Paris. | |
Portrait of Madame Edouard Pailleron | 1880 | Oil on canvas | Sargent showed the portrait during the Salon de Paris in 1880. | |||
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Madame Ramon Subercaseaux | 1880 | Oil on canvas | 165.1 x 109.9 cm | Private collection | Sargent was commissioned by the Chilean painter Subercaseaux to paint his wife after the Subercaseaux couple saw Fumée d'Ambre Gris in the Paris Salon. |
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Spanish dancer ( Spanish Dancer ) |
1880-81 | Oil on canvas | |||
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Portrait of Edouard and Marie-Louise Pailleron ( Portrait of Edouard and Marie-Louise Pailleron ) |
1881 | Oil on canvas | 152.4 x 175.3 cm. | Des Moines Art Center , Iowa | |
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Vernon Lee | 1881 | Oil on canvas | 53.7 x 43.2 cm. | Tate Gallery, London | Vernon Lee was the alias of Violet Paget , a childhood friend of John Singer Sargent and his sister Emily. |
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The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit ( The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit ) |
1882 | Oil on canvas | 221.9 x 222.6 cm. | Museum of Fine Arts, Boston , Massachusetts | |
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El Jaleo | 1882 | Oil on canvas | 237 × 352 cm. | Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum , Boston | Sargent showed the genre painting in 1882 during the Salon de Paris. |
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Lady with Rose ( Lady with the Rose ) |
1882 | Oil on canvas | 213 x 111 cm. | Metropolitan Museum of Art , New York | Sargent showed the portrait of Charlotte Louise Burckhard in 1882 during the Salon de Paris. |
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Mrs. Henry White | 1883 | Oil on canvas | 220.98 x 139.70 cm. | Corcoran Gallery of Art , Washington | Sargent first showed the painting in 1884 during an exhibition at the Royal Academy, London. |
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Portrait of Madame X (Madame Pierre Gautreau, née Virginie Avegno) |
1883-84 | Oil on canvas | 208.6 x 109.9 cm. | Metropolitan Museum of Art , New York | The portrait was exhibited in the Salon de Paris in 1884 and received very controversial. The failure led Sargent to settle in London. |
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Madame Paul Poirson | 1885 | Oil on canvas | Detroit Institute of Arts |
London creative period
painting | designation | year | technology | size | collection | annotation |
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The Misses Vickers | 1884 | Oil on canvas | Sheffield City Art Galleries, Sheffield, South Yorkshire | First commissioned work of the London creative period, with which Sargent opened up a new clientele. | |
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Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose | 1885-86 | Oil on canvas | 174 × 153.7 cm. | Tate Gallery, London | |
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Robert Louis Stevenson and his wife | 1885 | Oil on canvas | 52.1 x 62.2 cm. | Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art , Bentonville | |
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Sir Edmund Gosse | 1886 | Oil on canvas | 54.6 × 44.5 cm. | National Portrait Gallery, London | |
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Robert Louis Stevenson | 1887 | Oil on canvas | 50.8 x 61.6 cm. | Taft Museum of Art , Ohio | |
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Elizabeth Allen Marquand | 1887 | Oil on canvas | Princeton University Art Museum | The first US commission for John Singer Sargent | |
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Alice Vanderbilt Shepard | 1888 | Oil on canvas | 73.7 x 58.4 cm. | Private collection | |
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Isabella Stewart Gardner | 1888 | Oil on canvas | 190 x 81.2 cm. | Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum , Massachusetts | |
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Mrs. Adrian Iselin | 1888 | Oil on canvas | National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC | ||
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Paul Helleu sketching with his wife | 1889 | Oil on canvas | 66.4 x 81.6 cm. | Brooklyn Museum , New York | |
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Ellen Terry as Lady Macbeth | 1889 | Oil on canvas | 87 × 45 in (221 × 114.3 cm.) | Tate Britain | |
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Gabriel Fauré | circa 1889 | Oil on canvas | Paris Museum of Music | ||
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Nicola D'Inverno | 1892 | Oil on canvas | |||
Lady Agnew of Lochnaw | 1892 | Oil on canvas | 127 × 101 cm. | Scottish National Gallery , Edinburgh | ||
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Violet Hammersley, wife of Hugh Hammersley | 1892-93 | Oil on canvas | Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York | ||
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Eleonora Duse | circa 1893 | Oil on canvas | 58.4 x 48.3 cm. | Herta and Paul Amir Collection | |
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Ada Rehan | 1894-95 | Oil on canvas | Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York | ||
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Frederick Law Olmsted | 1895 | Oil on canvas | 232.1 x 154.3 cm. | Biltmore Estate , North Carolina | |
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Catherine Vlasto | 1897 | Oil on canvas | Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC | ||
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Pauline Astor | 1898-99 | Oil on canvas | The William Morris Collection, on loan to The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, California | ||
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The Wyndham Sisters: Lady Elcho, Mrs. Adeane, and Mrs. Tennant | 1899 | Oil on canvas | 292.1 x 213.7 cm | Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York | |
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Ena and Betty, Daughters of Asher and Mrs Wertheimer | 1901 | Oil on canvas | 185.4 x 130.8 cm | Tate Gallery, London | see also Wertheimer portraits |
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Alfred Wertheimer | 1901 | Oil on canvas | 163 × 115 cm | ||
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Alice Wernher, née Alice Sedgwick Mankiewicz | 1902 | Oil on canvas | |||
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Lady Evelyn Cavendish | 1902 | Oil on canvas | Chatsworth House , North Derbyshire. | ||
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Lord Ribblesdale | 1902 | Oil on canvas | 258.5 × 143.5 cm. | National Gallery , London | |
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Mrs. Fiske Warren (Gretchen Osgood) and her daughter Rachel | 1903 | Oil on canvas | Museum of Fine Arts, Boston | ||
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Leonard Wood , Maverick in the Making 1882-1921 | 1903 | Oil on canvas | National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian | ||
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Helen Vincent, Viscountess d'Abernon | 1904 | Oil on canvas | 158.8 × 108 cm. | Birmingham Museum of Art , Alabama | |
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Frank Swettenham, 8th King of Arms of the Order of St Michael and St George | 1904 | Oil on canvas | 258 × 142.5 cm. | Singapore History Gallery , National Museum of Singapore | |
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Charles Spencer-Churchill, 9th Duke of Marlborough | 1905 | Oil on canvas | 332.7 x 238.8 cm. | Blenheim Palace | |
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Sybil Frances Gray, later Lady Eden | 1905 | Oil on canvas | |||
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Dolce far niente | 1905-09 | Oil on canvas | 41.3 x 71.7 cm. | Brooklyn Museum | |
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Frederick Sleigh Roberts , 1st Earl Roberts | 1906 | Oil on canvas | National Portrait Gallery, London | ||
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Self-portrait | 1906 | Oil on canvas | 70 × 53 cm. | Uffizi Gallery , Florence | |
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Lady Eden | 1906 | Oil on canvas | Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA, USA | ||
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Lady Speyer | 1907 | Oil on canvas | 147.3 x 96.5 cm. | Private collection | |
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Almina, daughter of Asher Wertheimer | 1908 | Oil on canvas | 134 × 101 cm. | Tate Gallery, London | see also Wertheimer portraits |
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Lady Astor | 1909 | 149.9 × 99 cm. | Private collection | ||
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Henry James | 1913 | Oil on canvas | 85.1 x 67.3 cm. | National Portrait Gallery , London | |
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John D. Rockefeller | 1917 | Oil on canvas | 147.3 x 114.3 cm. | Senator and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller IV | |
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Gassed (gas poisoned ) |
1918 | Imperial War Museum , London | |||
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Grace Elvina, Marchioness Curzon of Kedleston | 1925 | Oil on canvas | 127 x 92.7 cm. | Currier Gallery of Art , Manchester, NH |
Single receipts
- ↑ Kilmurray, p. 71.
- ↑ a b Kilmurray, p. 69.
- ↑ Kilmurray, p. 72.
- ↑ Kilmurray, S. 86th
- ↑ Kilmurray, p. 91.
- ↑ Kilmurray, p. 94.
- ↑ Kilmurray, S. 98th
- ↑ a b Kilmurray, p. 101.
- ↑ Kilmurray, p. 114.
- ↑ Kilmurray, p. 120.
- ↑ a b Kilmurray, p. 136.
- ↑ Kilmurray, p. 126.
- ↑ Kilmurray, S. 144th
- ↑ Kilmurray, S. 146th
- ↑ JSS Gallery
- ↑ Kilmurray, S. 157th
- ↑ Kilmurray, S. 160th
- ↑ Mrs. Fiske Warren (Gretchen Osgood) and Her Daughter Rachel. mfa.org, accessed on August 2, 2014 .
- ↑ Kilmurray, p. 167.
- ↑ Kilmurray, p. 169.
- ↑ ABCGallery.com
- ↑ Kilmurray, p. 171.
- ↑ Kilmurray, p. 174.
literature
- Kilmurray, Elaine, and Richard Ormond (Eds.): John Singer Sargent . Princeton University Press, New Jersey 1998, ISBN 0-691-00434-X (English).
- Stanley Olson: John Singer Sargent - His Portrait . MacMillan, London 1986, ISBN 0-333-29167-0 .