Lady with rose
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| Lady with Rose (Lady with the Rose) |
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| John Singer Sargent , 1882 |
| Oil on canvas |
| 213.4 x 113.7 cm |
| Metropolitan Museum of Art , New York |
Lady with Rose , also Lady with the Rose or Portrait de Mlle *** , is a portrait by the American painter John Singer Sargent . It was created in 1882 and shows Charlotte Louise Burckhardt, who was 19 at the time. The portrait was shown together with Sargent's painting El Jaleo during the Salon de Paris in 1882 and led, among other things, to Margaret Stuyvesant Rutherford's commissioning Sargent with the portrait of Mrs. Henry White .
History of origin
Sargent's biographer Olson has described the Burckhardt family as a typical family of emigrants who briefly emerge from the dark because they are linked to the lives of historically significant people for a certain period of time and then disappear again in the dark. Edward Burckhardt was Swiss, Mary Elizabeth Tomes Burckhardt was an American living in Europe. Their daughters Valerie and Charlotte Louise were born in 1859 and 1863, respectively. In the first half of the 1880s you were acquainted with the painter James Carroll Beckwith and his friend Sargent. Between 1880 and 1885, John Singer Sargent painted every member of the family, including a portrait of Louise's dog.
Valerie Burckhardt married Harold Hadden in 1880, and from then on Mary Elizabeth Tome Burckhardt seemed to do everything possible to also marry off her second daughter, to Sargent. The handsome Sargent was at the start of a promising career and seemed like the right husband in her eyes. The relationship between the two of them, which developed very gradually, is particularly evidenced by Beckwith's diary entries and letters from Sargent's sister Emily to her childhood friend Violet Paget . Emily Sargent described Mrs. Burkhardt's attempts to pair them up as hideous, among other things. In the summer of 1881, however, their venture seemed to be successful, while Sargent and Louise spent a lot of time together during a family stay in Fontainebleau and later in the vicinity of Étretat , so that an engagement of the two was expected by many in the vicinity of Sargent and Beckwith . However, when Sargent returned to Paris, the relationship cooled down again. The portrait of Charlotte Louise Burckhardt was created during this phase of the relationship. Stanley Olson points out that portraits of friends were a typical Sargent gesture of friendship. However, the size of the portrait is unusual. It was shown at the Salon de Paris in 1882 under the title Portrait de Mlle *** and fueled rumors of an impending engagement. Mrs. Burckhardt then received the larger-than-life portrait of Sargent as a gift.
execution
Lady with Rose was created a few years after Sargent returned from a study trip from Spain, where he dealt extensively with the Spanish painter Diego Velázquez . Its influence can be clearly seen in the contemporary paintings The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit and El Jaleo . This influence can also be clearly seen in Lady with Rose . Charlotte Louise Burckhardt is shown in a pose reminiscent of Velazquez. The choice of colors with the strong contrasts of black and white, the almost monochrome background and the incarnate are reminiscent of this Spanish painter.
The Salon de Paris in 1882
During the Salon de Paris in 1882, Sargent exhibited his large-format portrait of a lady with rose together with the equally large-format El Jaleo . As during the Salon de Paris in 1880, it was a conscious decision by Sargent to exhibit not only a portrait but also a genre picture . Sargent's fame as an outstanding portraitist had grown steadily over the years. With El Jaleo and Dame with Rose , Sargent wanted to prove his versatility again. The decision turned out to be the right one. Both paintings were favorably discussed by the French public and published in newspapers and monthly magazines.
Provenance
Portrait de Mlle *** , which soon became known as the Lady with the Rose , remained in the family of the Burckhardts. Louise Burckhardt married Arthur Roger Ackerley in September 1889. Louise died 18 months after the wedding. The portrait was bequeathed by Mary Elizabeth Tome Burckhardt in will after her death in 1899 to her eldest daughter Valerie Hadden, who gave it to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1932 , where it is part of the permanent exhibition in Gallery 771. Also exhibited there is the Sargent portrait of Madame X , which Sargent exhibited two years after Lady with Rose during the Salon de Paris . Unlike Lady with Rose , Sargent had no success with this painting. It was received very controversially by the public and critics. The failure of this exhibition contributed significantly to the fact that Sargent moved the center of his life to London.
literature
- Stanley Olson: John Singer Sargent - His Portrait . MacMillan, London 1986. ISBN 0-333-29167-0 .
Web links
Single receipts
- ^ Stanley Olson: John Singer Sargent - His Portrait . MacMillan, London 1986, ISBN 0-333-29167-0 . P. 87
- ^ Stanley Olson: John Singer Sargent - His Portrait . MacMillan, London 1986, ISBN 0-333-29167-0 . P. 88
- ^ Stanley Olson: John Singer Sargent - His Portrait . MacMillan, London 1986, ISBN 0-333-29167-0 . P. 89
- ^ Stanley Olson: John Singer Sargent - His Portrait . MacMillan, London 1986, ISBN 0-333-29167-0 . P. 89
- ^ John Singer Sargent: Lady with the Rose (Charlotte Louise Burckhardt) "(32.154) In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art , accessed August 9, 2014