HOW DO YOU
PICTURE
YOURSELF?

Quote of the Day - June 29, 2010

"Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend."


John Singer Sargent [1856-1925]

Top painting center: Elizabeth "Bessie" Winthrop Chanler - Mrs. John J. Chapman, 1893 - The National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.

Painting on Left - lady sitting with sash: Lady Agnew of Lochnaw -1892-93 - in the National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh

Painting on Right - lady sitting with red drapes behind her: Miss Eden - 1905 - Watercolor - private collection.

Painting on Lower right center - lady standing in black gown: Madam X - 1893-94 - Madam Pierre Gautreau - called "scandalous" by critics. Sargent thought this to be his best. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, N.Y.