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John Singer Sargent
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Nationalmuseum is proud to present an exhibition with paintings by John Singer Sargent (1856–1925). Sargent is considered one of the most important artists at the turn of the last century, but still little known in Sweden. Discover this autumn's great exhibition and meet an artist shown for the very first time in Scandinavia.
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Artist: John Singer Sargent
Title: Henry James
Description:
The novelist Edith Wharton had the idea of marking James’ seventieth birthday with a portrait by Sargent. When the ten sittings were over the writer relished the sober, stately, and tender likeness. He was proud when friends said that Sargent had never painted a mouth that was as expressive and living as his. The portrait distills three decades of friendship between the artist and the author.
| Datafält | Värde |
| Title | Henry James |
| Artist | John Singer Sargent, American, born 1856-01-12, dead 1925-04 |
| Technique/Material | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 85,1 x 67,3 cm |
| Dating | Made 1913 |
| Acquisition | National Portrait Gallery, London, NPG 1767 |
| Loan |
Artist: John Singer Sargent
Title: Mrs Hugh Hammersley (Mary Frances Grant)
Description:
The subject was a fashionable hostess who lived in splendour with her banker husband in the London suburb of Hampstead. Sargent presents her as a jaunty and attentive beauty, eager to sustain an energized atmosphere in her drawing room. Her jewelry, shiny slippers, and the metallic embroidery on her gown cause her figure to sparkle from head to foot. The lavish furnishings emulate the Louis XVI style, especially the neoclassical sofa with lyre motifs adorning the upholstery.
| Datafält | Värde |
| Title | Mrs Hugh Hammersley (Mary Frances Grant) |
| Artist | John Singer Sargent, American, born 1856-01-12, dead 1925-04 |
| Technique/Material | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 205,7 x 115,6 cm, Frame 232,4 x 133,7 x 12,1 cm |
| Dating | Made 1892 |
| Acquisition | Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Douglass Campbell, in memory of Mrs. Richard E. Danielson, 1998, 1998.365 |
| Loan |
Artist: John Singer Sargent
Title: Vernon Lee
Description:
Vernon Lee was the pen name of Violet Paget, an intellectual who fondly recalled her childhood escapades with Sargent in Florence. Unmarried, she formed a few passionate friendships with women. Sargent completed this sketch in about three hours, creating a vivid impression of a serious, spirited person in the midst of thought. His rapid, fragmented rendering of the eyeglasses and the diverse colors dabbed around the mouth are perfect instances of his inventiveness when sketching.
| Datafält | Värde |
| Title | Vernon Lee |
| Artist | John Singer Sargent, American, born 1856-01-12, dead 1925-04 |
| Technique/Material | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 53,7 x 43,2 cm, Frame 75 x 64 x 8,8 cm |
| Dating | Made 1881 |
| Acquisition | Tate: Bequeathed by Miss Vernon Lee through Miss Cooper Willis 1935, N04787 |
| Loan |
Artist: John Singer Sargent
Title: Two Wine Glasses
Description:
The location of this French garden is unknown. It may be a café in a village such as Grez-sur-Loing, where countless artists worked during this period. Still in his teens, Sargent explores the interplay between the brightest elements (the sunlit portion of the tablecloth, for example) and the shaded areas beneath the arbour.
| Datafält | Värde |
| Title | Two Wine Glasses |
| Artist | John Singer Sargent, American, born 1856-01-12, dead 1925-04 |
| Technique/Material | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 45 x 37,5 cm, Frame 66,7 x 57,2 x 7,3 cm |
| Dating | Made c. 1875 |
| Acquisition | The National Gallery, London. Accepted by HM Government in lieu of Inheritance Tax and allocated to the National Gallery, 2018, L1214 |
| Loan |
Artist: Anders Zorn
Title: King Gustav V
Description:
John Singer Sargent and Anders Zorn were two of the world’s most successful portrait painters in the years around 1900. They met on several occasions and had friends and patrons in common. Both men were commissioned to paint portraits of US presidents. As artists they remind one of each other. Both were skilled at capturing facial expressions as well as the feel and texture of different aterials such as textiles, glass and metal. Their paintings might seem to have been produced in a spirit of conscious nonchalance. As though painted without the least effort. Both Sargent and Zorn admired the 17th century Spanish painter Diego Velázquez as well as the 19th century French painter Édouard Manet.
| Datafält | Värde |
| Title | King Gustav V |
| Artist | Anders Zorn, Swedish, born 1860-02-18, dead 1920-08-22 |
| Technique/Material | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 203 x 123 cm, Frame 220 x 135 x 4 cm |
| Dating | Made 1909 |
| Acquisition | Private collection |
| Loan |
Artist: John Singer Sargent
Title: The Earl of Dalhousie
Description:
The subject is pale and sandy-haired, but his face and hands are sunburnt. The white tropical attire points up the ruddiness of his skin. A conventional portraitist would have omitted the band on the forehead where a hat blocked the sun. Sargent claimed to paint what he saw, and liked to say, “I chronicle, I do not judge.” The haughty set of the head and the incipient sneer suggest that Sargent saw this youthful patrician, educated at Eton and Oxford, as an arrogant person.
| Datafält | Värde |
| Title | The Earl of Dalhousie |
| Artist | John Singer Sargent, American, born 1856-01-12, dead 1925-04 |
| Technique/Material | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 154 x 111 cm |
| Dating | Made 1900 |
| Acquisition | Private collection |
| Loan |
Artist: John Singer Sargent
Title: Ena and Betty, Daughters of Mr and Mrs Asher Wertheimer
Description:
This is one of the portraits that Sargent painted of the art dealer Asher Wertheimer’s family in London. The painting shows two of the family’s daughters, Ena and Betty. Gestures and facial expressions communicate a sense of their having just stopped in front of the artist. They seem to be caught in the moment, as in a photograph. Sargent became a friend of the family and Asher Wertheimer helped him to acquire commissions for portraits.
| Datafält | Värde |
| Title | Ena and Betty, Daughters of Mr and Mrs Asher Wertheimer |
| Artist | John Singer Sargent, American, born 1856-01-12, dead 1925-04 |
| Technique/Material | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 185,4 x 130,8 cm, Frame 227 x 170,6 x 21 cm |
| Dating | Made 1901 |
| Acquisition | Tate: Presented be the widow and family of Asher Wertheimer in accordance with his wishes 1922, N03708 |
| Loan |
Artist: John Singer Sargent
Title: Doctor Pozzi
Description:
Samuel-Jean Pozzi ((1846–1918) var en pionjär inom den moderna gynekologin i Frankrike. Sargent har porträtterat honom helt i rött, på ett sätt som påminner om en äldre tradition av porträtt av påvar och kardinaler. De elegant långsmala händerna anspelar säkert på Pozzis skicklighet som kirurg, men ger också porträttet ett sensuellt drag som understryks av den informella klädseln och sammetsdraperierna. 1918 sköts Pozzi till döds av en missnöjd manlig patient.
| Datafält | Värde |
| Title | Doctor Pozzi |
| Artist | John Singer Sargent, American, born 1856-01-12, dead 1925-04 |
| Technique/Material | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 201,6 x 102,2 cm, Frame 231,1 x 126,4 x 9,5 cm |
| Dating | Made 1881 |
| Acquisition | The Armand Hammer Collection. Gift of the Arman Hammer Foundation. Hammer Museum. Los Angeles. AH.90.69 |
| Loan |
Artist: John Singer Sargent
Title: Auguste Rodin
Description:
Rodin and Sargent planned to exchange portraits in 1884. The painter produced this memorable image of a virile, animalistic person with the eyes of a dreamer. Rodin’s pale face and reddish beard stand out against the dark background and jacket. There is no record that Rodin sculpted a bust of Sargent, but he did give him a cast of his radical figure of a headless, armless male nude (L’Homme Qui Marche). Sargent showed this painting in a group exhibition in Paris in 1885.
| Datafält | Värde |
| Title | Auguste Rodin |
| Artist | John Singer Sargent, American, born 1856-01-12, dead 1925-04 |
| Technique/Material | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 72 x 53 cm |
| Dating | Made 1884 |
| Acquisition | Musée Rodin, Paris, P.7341 |
| Loan |
Artist: John Singer Sargent
Title: Mrs Waldorf Astor (Nancy Langhome)
Description:
Nancy Astor was extraordinary in ways that could inspire Sargent to make an exceptional portrait: she had a striking face, a sense of style, and a fetching spirit. He depicted her drifting in a dusky colonnade, turning her into modern rival of the neoclassical beauties depicted by such neoclassical portraitists as Elizabeth Vigée le Brun and Joshua Reynolds. The Astors hung the picture at Cliveden, their Italianate mansion beside the River Thames, about 50 km from London.
| Datafält | Värde |
| Title | Mrs Waldorf Astor (Nancy Langhome) |
| Artist | John Singer Sargent, American, born 1856-01-12, dead 1925-04 |
| Technique/Material | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 150,5 x 99,7 cm, Frame 170 x 120 x 7 cm |
| Dating | Made 1908 - 1909 |
| Acquisition | Cliveden Estate, National Trust |
| Loan |
Artist: John Singer Sargent
Title: Nude Study of Thomas E McKeller
Description:
The artist met this hotel worker during a long stay in Boston (1916– 18), and hired him as a model. He posed for many of the figures in Sargent’s classicizing decorations in the rotunda of the Museum of Fine Arts. The artist revered McKeller’s broad-shouldered muscular physique, but he was obliged to erase the man’s racial identity as he translated his studies into idealized mythical characters in the murals.
| Datafält | Värde |
| Title | Nude Study of Thomas E McKeller |
| Artist | John Singer Sargent, American, born 1856-01-12, dead 1925-04 |
| Technique/Material | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 125,73 x 84,45 cm |
| Dating | Made c. 1916 - 1924 |
| Acquisition | Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Henry H. and Zoe Oliver Sherman Fund, 1986.60 |
| Loan |
Artist: John Singer Sargent
Title: On His Holidays, Norway
Description:
A salmon catch, massive boulders, and a racing river – all rendered with brio – turn this portrait of a British schoolboy into an idiosyncratic tour de force. In the Norwegian retreat where he and his father fished, Alexander McCulloch is daydreaming, with a gaff in one hand and a landing net held between his legs. The likeness is very empathetic, and the setting and props hint metaphorically at the pending trials of adulthood. McCulloch became a rower and competed in the 1908 Olympics.
| Datafält | Värde |
| Title | On His Holidays, Norway |
| Artist | John Singer Sargent, American, born 1856-01-12, dead 1925-04 |
| Technique/Material | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 135,9 x 242,6 cm |
| Dating | Made 1901 |
| Acquisition | National Museums Liverpool, Lady Lever Art Gallery |
| Loan |
Artist: John Singer Sargent
Title: Sketch for 'Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose'
Description:
Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose is a large and vivid twilight scene that brought Sargent decisive critical acclaim in London in 1887: the picture, painted in the village of Broadway, features two girls lighting paper lanterns in a flower-filled garden. A line in Joseph Mazzinghi’s pastoral ballad, Flora’s Wreath, composed around 1810, inspired Sargent’s title. This oil sketch shows Dolly Barnard, one of the sisters who served as his models.
| Datafält | Värde |
| Title | Sketch for 'Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose' |
| Artist | John Singer Sargent, American, born 1856-01-12, dead 1925-04 |
| Technique/Material | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 50,2 x 40,3 cm |
| Dating | Made 1885 |
| Acquisition | Private collection, L2014.1.2 |
| Loan |
Artist: John Singer Sargent
Title: Claude Monet Painting by the Edge of a Wood
Description:
As a student in Paris Sargent surely saw some of the exhibitions by the independent group known as Impressionists. By the mid-1880s he was making outdoor paintings featuring the broken brushwork and bright palette he admired in Monet’s landscapes. In 1885 Sargent traveled to Monet’s home in Giverny, where he painted this swift sketch of the artist and his wife Alice. The painting on Frenchman’s easel has been identified as a view of a meadow bordered by trees, with haystacks on the left.
| Datafält | Värde |
| Title | Claude Monet Painting by the Edge of a Wood |
| Artist | John Singer Sargent, American, born 1856-01-12, dead 1925-04 |
| Technique/Material | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 54 x 64,8 cm, Frame 61,8 x 73,4 x 7 cm |
| Dating | Made c. 1885 |
| Acquisition | Tate: Presented be Miss Emily Sargent and Mrs Ormond through the Art Fund 1925, N04103 |
| Loan |
Artist: John Singer Sargent
Title: An Artist in His Studio
Description:
Contradictory associations are triggered by this playful picture: a bedroom is used as a studio; an artist is painting landscapes in a cramped room; and a stunning still life of clothes and rumpled sheets draws attention away from the man portrayed. He is Ambrogio Raffele, a North Italian who was eleven years older than Sargent. They met when Sargent was in the Italian Alps and became dear friends. From 1904 to 1911 they often got together during summer breaks in Italy and Switzerland.
| Datafält | Värde |
| Title | An Artist in His Studio |
| Artist | John Singer Sargent, American, born 1856-01-12, dead 1925-04 |
| Technique/Material | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 56,2 x 72,1 cm |
| Dating | Made c. 1904 |
| Acquisition | Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The Hayden Collection – Charles Henry Hayden Fund, 05.56 |
| Loan |
Artist: John Singer Sargent
Title: Two Girls in White Dresses
Description:
Splendid white dresses and delicately tinted scarves and shawls engulf these languid beauties. The main figure is a pictorial excuse to paint a sparkling torrent of fabric on an Alpine hillside. Her coy face and beguiling gaze anchor the middle distance. The artist’s niece Rose-Marie Ormond modeled for both women. After dutifully painting clients in satin gowns for three decades Sargent may have enjoyed this stunning work as a playful rejoinder to the strictures of formal portraiture.
| Datafält | Värde |
| Title | Two Girls in White Dresses |
| Artist | John Singer Sargent, American, born 1856-01-12, dead 1925-04 |
| Technique/Material | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 69,8 x 54,5 cm, Frame 87 x 71,9 x 5,5 cm |
| Dating | Made c. 1911 |
| Acquisition | Private collection |
| Loan |
Artist: John Singer Sargent
Title: Bringing Down Marble from the Quarries to Carrara
Description:
In 1911, after a summer sketching in the Swiss Alps, Sargent traveled to Carrara, on the northwest coast of Italy. He wanted to experience the daunting inland terrain of a historic industrial site: the Ravaccione quarries, a famed source of white marble. Here he paints wiry men working with ropes and posts to slide blocks of marble down the mountainside to the plain. There is no direct sunlight on the foreground but the Mediterranean sky creates warm ochre and grey tones on the marble.
| Datafält | Värde |
| Title | Bringing Down Marble from the Quarries to Carrara |
| Artist | John Singer Sargent, American, born 1856-01-12, dead 1925-04 |
| Technique/Material | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 71,4 x 91,8 cm |
| Dating | Made 1911 |
| Acquisition | The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917, 17.97.1 |
| Loan |