Madame
Paul
Escudier
John Singer
Sargent
-- American
painter
c. 1882-1884
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts
Oil on canvas
73.2 x 59.5 cm (28 3/4 x 23 1/2 in.)
Inscribed: (Upper left:) a Madame Escudier/John S.
Sargent
Accession Number: 581
Jpg: Resource
Library Magazine / Dan Smith
Bust portrait of Madame Paul Escudier (1861-1950) wearing a black coat
with diamond pin and a black hat with white ribbons. (SIRIS)
Sargent emphasizes
the
sitter's hat,
which is central to her overall appearance and style. A decorative
mound
of wide white ribbons on the top of her hat makes a bold statement
against
her black dress and a painted backdrop of deep Prussian blue.
(Resource
Library Magazine)
He would do a second protrait of her:
Madame
Paul Escudier
1882
From:
Etienne
Escudier
etienne.
esc udier@wanadoo.fr
Date:
Thursday,
March 11, 2004
I'm
trying
to find out how the painter and my family met together. As Paul
ESCUDIER
was a politician well known for his numerous contributions for arts and
artists I believe he knew SARGENT before SARGENT knew him.
Madame
Paul
ESCUDIER is my great -grandmother. JS SARGENT seems to have painted two
different portraits. I've found only one which is located in
WILLIAMSTOWN.
Will you provide me any information on this two (or more) portraits of
my family.
Best
regards.
Etienne
ESCUDIER
FRANCE.
From: The
Resource
Libray Magazine
Notes:
Special thanks to
Craig
Chaddock,
a friend of the
JSS
Gallery, for first locating this image on the net and then Dan Smith for sending me this
better image of this painting from one of his
trips. To see more of Dan's images from his quest for art, visit his
website here ArtQuest
USA.
Bibliography:
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, collection checklist, 1972.
Ormond, Richard and Elaine Kilmurray, "John Singer Sargent: complete
paintings; volume 1, The early portraits," New Haven, CT: Yale
University Press, 1998, no. 54.
Conrads, Margaret C., "American Paintings and Sculpture at the Sterling
and Francine Clark Art Institute," New York, NY: Hudson Hills Press,
1990, pg. 185.
Illustration:
Ormond, Richard and Elaine Kilmurray, "John Singer Sargent: complete
paintings; volume 1, The early portraits," New Haven, CT: Yale
University Press, 1998, pg. 64.
Conrads, Margaret C., "American Paintings and Sculpture at the Sterling
and Francine Clark Art Institute," New York, NY: Hudson Hills Press,
1990, pg. 186.
Catalogue
JSS
10129
SIRIS IAP 23480021
CMM 829 - Mme. Paul Escudier, inscribed: A
Mme.
Escudier John S. Sargent. 23 ½ x 28 3/4, Estate of Charles Deering.
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