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Mrs.
Kate Moore
(Katharine
Robinson)
John
Singer Sargent
-- American painter
1884
Hirshhron
Museum and
Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC
Oil on
canvas
181.9
x 116.2 cm (71
5/8 x 45 3/4 in.)
Jpg: Local
source
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A millionairess from
Pittsburgh,
Mrs. Kate Moore (1846 -1917) became one of the leading figures in Paris
high society especially among the expatiate Americans. She lavishly
entertained.
Sargent, no doubt was an invited guest to some. He would paint her a
number
of times. She was 38 at the time of this painting. Although certainly a
good commisssion, from what John wrote to Henry James about her in
1884,
it didn't sound like they were very close.
I am
dreadfully tired of the
people here and of my present work, a certain majestic portrait of an
ugly
woman [Mrs Kate Moore]. She is like a great frigate under full sail
with
homeward-bound steamers flying"
Mrs.
Katharine Moore
1884
Notes:
Exhibitions
John
Singer
Sargent,
An Exhibition -- Whitney
Museum, NY & The Art Institute of Chicago 1986-1987
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