John Singer SargentVerenigde Staten, 1856–1925L'Aiglon
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Over het werk
Drawing by John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) of Marie Lohr as Francis Charles (Napoleon II) in Edmond Rostand's play L'Aiglon ca. 1919.
John Singer Sargent was born in Italy to American parents. He studied under Carolus-Duran and was his assistant until 1878. Sargent's reputation as a portraitist reached its height in the 1890s, and he painted many of the distinguished personalities of his day, including the actress Dame Ellen Terry, Robert Louis Stevenson and Henry James.
Rostand wrote his 1900 tragedy L'Aiglon for Sarah Bernhardt, who played the 'trouser role' of the young Napoleon II, nicknamed L'Aiglon (the young eagle). Marie Lohr (1890-1975) took the part in London in 1919.
Victoria and Albert Museum
Gegevens
- Inventarisnummer
- S.112-2013
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Intussen, in het leven van John Singer Sargent
Het hele leven1895–1919
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.
last decade of life
Watercolours of Maine, Florida and the American West
In the last decade of his life Sargent produces many watercolours in Maine, Florida and the American West, of fauna, flora and native peoples.
1917
By 1917 the critics consign him to the masters of the past
By the time Sargent finishes his portrait of John D. Rockefeller in 1917 most critics begin to consign him to the masters of the past, and the Modernists treat him more harshly, as out of touch with the reality of American life and with emerging trends such as Cubism and Futurism; Sargent quietly accepts the criticism but refuses to alter his negative opinions of modern art.
1918
Commissioned as a war artist
On his return to England in 1918 after a visit to the United States Sargent is commissioned as a war artist by the British Ministry of Information; he depicts scenes from the Great War in his large painting “Gassed” and in many watercolours.
Good Friday 1918
His niece Rose-Marie killed in the shelling of Paris
On Good Friday 1918 his niece Rose-Marie dies in the shelling of the church of St Gervais in Paris; Sargent is deeply affected by her death.
late 1919
The row over the murals “The Church” and “The Synagogue”
The paintings “The Church” and “The Synagogue”, installed in late 1919, portray Christianity as a lovely, radiant young woman and Judaism as a blind, ugly hag, and seem to Boston's Jews to show Judaism defeated; Sargent is both surprised and hurt by the criticism and in the end abandons his plan to finish the murals.
