Lady Fishing
- Mrs.
Ormond
John Singer
Sargent
-- American painter
1889
Tate
Gallery,
London
Oil on
canvas
184.8 x 97.8
cm
Presented by
Miss Emily
Sargent in memory of her brother through the National Art Collections
Fund
1929
Jpg: www.artfund.org
From: Tate Gallery
Display Caption
(29-Apr-1996)
It was while Sargent was
living in
the Cotswolds during the 1880s that his painting was closest to
Impressionism.
He was friendly with Monet, whom he visited in France several times.
Sargent
rented a  large
house in Fladbury, beside the River Avon, in the summer of 1889. He
made
there a small oil sketch of his sister Violet, as she was standing on
the
river bank holding a long fishing rod [thumbnail]. She then posed for
him
for this large painting of the same subject, probably out of doors, but
not beside the river. The painting is unfinished, and he did not add
the
rod. The canvas was later rolled up, making the creases visible along
the
right hand side.
Violet
1881
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