A Spanish Woman, John Singer Sargent I thought this looked…
Sunday, October 20th, 2013
A Spanish Woman, John Singer Sargent
I thought this looked unusual for a Sargent, so I looked it up. He painted it early, before he became famous as a portraitist. In 1879, at the age of 23, having completed his instruction at the atelier of Carolus-Duran in Paris, he traveled to Spain. Among the paintings he created based on the trip were this one, and El Jaleo (A Spanish Dancer), both completed in 1882:
El Jaleo created a sensation, and helped to launch Sargent’s career. But A Spanish Woman, with its quiet drama and the strength of its female subject, to my eye foreshadows some of his most memorable portraits from later years.
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