Madame
Edouard Pailleron
John
Singer
Sargent
-- American painter
1879
The
Corcoran
Gallery
of Art, Washington DC
Oil on
canvas
208.3
x
100.4 cm (82
x 39 1/2 in.)
Gallery
Fund
and Gifts
of Katherine McCook Knox,
John
A.
Nevius and Mr.
and Mrs. Landsell K. Christies
Jpg: CGFA
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 Fumée
d'Ambre
Gris at the Paris salon.
The autumn setting
with
the yellow
fallen leafs and wild flowers gives this a more unusual look for this
formal
portrait. Sargent had been lucky in patrons. The Paillerons were open
to
a more artistic interpretation of portraiture. The sitter was born born
Marie Buloz (1840-1913). Her father was the
editor
of the journal Revue des Deux Mondes and her husband was a
successful
dramatist and poet. Still, this wasn't that far out of the vogue of the
time. Some have pointed to contemporarily references which Sargent
might have drawn inspiration such as James Jacques Joseph Tissot's October.
See the work in Juxtaposition with
Sargent's painting
James Jacques
Joseph
Tissot
October
1877 |
John Singer Sargent
Madame
Edouard Pailleron
1879 |
Photo
as it hangs in the Corcoran
Madame
Edouard Pailleron (study)
1879
Note:
Exhibitions
John Singer Sargent,
An Exhibition -- Whitney
Museum, NY & The Art Institute of Chicago 1986-1987
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