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An Artist in His Studio
1904
John Singer Sargent, American, 1856–1925
56.2 x 72.07 cm (22 1/8 x 28 3/8 in.)
Oil on canvas
Inscriptions: Upper right: John S. SargentClassification: PaintingsObject is currently not on viewOn a summer vacation in the Italian Alps, Sargent depicted his friend, the artist Ambrogio Raffele, painting a bucolic landscape. The setting is a cramped hotel bedroom. Surrounded by sketches presumably made outdoors, Raffele holds a palette that bears actual blobs of thick, bright paint. Half the composition is given over to rumpled sheets and a discarded smock--an extraordinary display of brilliant brushwork that gave Sargent the opportunity (which he loved) of painting white on white.
This text has been adapted from G. Shallcross, MFA: A Guide to the Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston, 2005), available at http://www.mfashop.com/mfa-publications Museum of Fine Arts, BostonThe Hayden Collection—Charles Henry Hayden Fund, 1905
Accession number: 05.56Provenance/Ownership History: The artist; to MFA, 1905, purchased for $1039.53.This object is included in the following Selected Tour(s):
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