Meeting of
Mary and
Elisabeth after Luca della Robbia
John Singer
Sargent
-- American painter
Date?
(possibly 1897)
Fogg Art
Museum, Cambridge,
Massachusetts
Graphite on
off-white
wove paper
22.8 x 19.8
cm
Gift of Mrs.
Francis
Ormond
1937.8.158
Jpg: Sargent
at Harvard
Luca
della Robbia
Italian
sculptor,
Florentine school
(1399/1400
- 1482)
Meeting
of Mary and Elisabeth
c.
1450 |
John
Singer Sargent
Meeting
of Mary and Elisabeth after Luca della Robbia
possibly
1897
|
The sculpture was sketched
by John
Singer Sargent on one of his trips to Pistoia which is in and around
Tuscany,
just northwest of Florence (Firenze). It resides in the church of San
Giovanni
Fuorcivitas. This may have been done in 1897 when Sargent was working
diligently
on material for the Boston
Public Library murals. Pistoia was relatively close to a patron
friend
of John's: Prince Paul P. Demidoff (the 2nd Prince of San Donato). He
had
painted Princess Demidoff in
1895-1896.
Sargent would
later revisit this subject in his Boston Public Library Murals
Sketch for the Joyful Mysteries, The Annunciation - The Virgin's Drapery
1903–16
Notes:
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