John Singer Sargent Significant Paintings 
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It's difficult to narrow down Sargent's most Significant and Major paintings, but here  are a few:






 
Sargent's art is penetrating . . . 

Daughters of Edward Darley Boit
1882
Natasha Essay
Museum of Fine Arts,  Boston 
Oil on canvas 
221.9 x 222.6 cm (87 3/8 x 87 5/8 in.)
Gift of Mary Louisa Boit, Julia Overing Boit, Jane Hubbard Boit, and Florance D. Boit. In memory of their Father, Edward Darley Boit

(Caricature of Sargent's painting)

Canvas Transfer

Print




 
The passion  . . . 

El Jaleo
1882
Natasha Essay 
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Oil on canvas
237 x 352 cm (93 3/8 x 138 1/2 in.)

(View painting in museum and essay)
(A Performer's View of Sargent's El Jaleo, by Nancy G. Heller.)

El Jaleo -- Canvas Transfer

El Jaleo -- Print





 
Scandalous  . . . (considered by Sargent to be his best)

Madame X 
1884
Natasha Essay
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
Oil on canvas
208.6 x 109.9 cm (82 1/8 x 43 1/4 in.)

(The Road to Madame X)
(Picture and Essay)
(Caricature of Sargent's painting)
(Photo of Painting at Salon)
(Nicole Kidman's Madame X)


 




 
The telling nature of composition . . . 

Robert Louis Stevenson and His Wife
1885
Natasha essay
Bournemouth, August 1885 
Private collection 
(Steve Wynn collection)
Oil on canvas
52.1 x 62.2 cm ( 20 1/2 x 24 1/2 in.)




 
The Great Master of light . . .

Carnation Lily, Lily Rose
1885-86
Natasha essay
Tate Gallery, London
Oil on canvas
68 1/2 x 60 1/2 in.

(Essays Wet-canvas)
(Caricature of Sargent's painting)


 




 
The influence of Monet and the Impressionists 

Claude Monet Painting
1887
Natasha Essay
Tate Gallery, London
Oil on canvas
54 x 64.8 cm (21 1/4 x 25 1/5 in.)




 
Sargent's impressionism . . . 

Paul Helleu Sketching
1889
Natasha Essay
The Brooklyn Museum, NY
Oil on canvas
26 1/8 x 32 1/8 in.
Museum Collection Fund




 
The portrait artist at his best . . . 

Lady Agnew of Lochnaw
1892-93
Natasha Essay
National Gallery of Scotland
Oil on canvas
127 x 101 cm (50  x 39 3/4 in.)

(photo of Lady Agnew)


 





 
"The many cannot miss his meaning, and only a few can find it . . ." 

Triumph of Religion
1895-1919
Natasha Essay
Boston Public Library
Sargent Hall murals

(Boston Public Library)


 





 
The painter of the leading figures of his time . . .

President Theodore Roosevelt 
1903
Natasha Essay
The White House, Washington, D.C.
Oil on canvas
58  1/2 x 40 1/2 in.




 
Brevity and power in each brush stroke . . . 

Portrait of Miss Eliza Wedgewood
c. 1905 
Natasha 
Private collection
Watercolor and Pencil on Paper

53.5 x 36cm (21 x 14 in.)
Signed and "dedicated for my friend Eliza"




 
in plein air . . . 

Breakfast In The Loggia
1910 
Natasha
Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 
Oil on canvas 
52.1 x 71.1 cm (20 1/2 x 28 in.)

(Two Studies in Light)




 
Bold! Demanding! the gilded age of beauty and society meets the horrors of war...
Gassed

1918-19
Natasha
Imperial War Museum, London
Oil on canvas
231 x 611.1 cm (91 x 240
1/2 in.)



 
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