John Singer SargentAmerican, 1856–1925Syrian Goats
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During a visit to the Middle East in 1905–6, John Singer Sargent painted this study of a rocky, sun-drenched pasture, featuring a herd of goats and a single figure at top left. The trip included stays in what is now Syria and Jordan as well as Jerusalem. The artist traveled to the region in search of subject matter for a different kind of project: a long-term and large-scale mural commission. Sargent nevertheless found time for landscape painting during the trip and thereafter focused with new energy on such vibrant depictions of the natural world.
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Meanwhile, in the life of John Singer Sargent
The whole life1895–1919
The “Triumph of Religion” murals for the Boston Public Library
From 1895 through 1919, for almost thirty years, Sargent works on his largest-scale work, the mural decorations “Triumph of Religion” for the Boston Public Library, showing religion's progress from pagan superstition to the ascension of Christianity; he never completes the final mural of the cycle.
1905
His first major solo show of watercolours
In 1905 the Carfax Gallery in London holds Sargent's first major solo exhibition of watercolour works; in watercolours he is able to indulge his earliest artistic inclinations for nature, architecture, exotic peoples and noble mountain landscapes.
1905–1914
Summer journeys with the de Glehns
Between 1905 and 1914 Sargent's frequent travelling companions are the married artist couple Wilfrid de Glehn and Jane Emmet de Glehn; the trio often spend summers in France, Spain or Italy, and all three depict one another in their paintings.
1906–1913
Summers in the Swiss Alps with his sisters and nieces
Sargent makes several summer visits to the Swiss Alps with his sisters Emily and Violet and Violet's daughters Rose-Marie and Reine, who are the subject of a number of paintings between 1906 and 1913, such as “The Black Brook” (1908).
1907
Closes his portrait studio
In 1907, at the age of fifty-one, Sargent officially closes his studio, relieved: painting a portrait, he says, would be quite amusing if one were not forced to talk while working, entertaining the sitter and looking happy when one feels wretched.
