Madame
Errazuriz
John Singer
Sargent -- American
painter
c. 1880-02
Private
collection
Oil on canvas
53.3 x 48.3 cm
(21 x 19
in.)
Jpg: Net Unknown
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Madame Eugenia
Errazuriz née
Eufenia Huic (1858-1951) was born into a wealthy silver-mining family
in
Chile and married painter José Tomás Errazuriz in
1880.
José was the brother of Ramon Subercaseaux who was the Chilean
consul
to Paris. Sargent had painted Madame
Subercaseaux in 1880. The newlyweds (Madame Errazuriz and her
husband)
moved to Europe. In the autumn of that year they met Sargent when they
were visiting Venice, possibly on their honeymoon, and seeing
José's
brother who had taken a studio with Sargent at the Palazzo
Rezzonico (see Emily's
letter). They settled in Paris where they became friends with many
in the the same circle: the American heiress Winnareta Singer, the
French
composer Gabriel Fauré, French
painters
Joseph Roger-Jourdain, Ernest Duez, and Paul
Helleu; and the Italian artist Giovanni
Boldini.
In later years they
moved to London
where she and her husband would eventually split.
She was an avid
supporter of the
arts. Was friends with noted writers and musicians such as W.R.
Sickert,
Baron de Meyer, Diaghilev, Stravinsky, Jean Cocteau and Cecil
Beaton.
Sargent became very
fond of Madame
Errazuriz and would paint her a number of times. Besides Sargent, she
was
also painted by Jacques-Emile Blanche (French painter 1861-1942),
Giovanni
Boldini, Paul Helleu, Augustus John, and Pablo Picasso.
- Picasso's Portrait
de Mlle Eugenia
Errazuriz.
- (off site)
Notes:
Exhibitions
Sargent's
Women, Adelson Galleries, New York, 2003
See
the year in
review 1880
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