Album; Studies for Israel and the Law - John Singer Sargent
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A museum-grade print of the exterior binding of John Singer Sargent's personal study album for his Boston Public Library mural commission.
This object represents the exterior of a bound album containing preparatory sketches and studies by John Singer Sargent. The album relates to his extensive mural commission for the Boston Public Library, specifically the section titled Israel and the Law. Sargent worked on these murals over several decades, beginning in the 1890s, and the contents of this volume provide a view into his working methods and the development of his complex iconographic programme. The binding itself is a functional example of late nineteenth-century craft. It features a dark green cloth cover with leather corners and a leather spine, showing the wear expected of a working artist's reference tool. The construction is typical of the period, designed to protect the fragile charcoal and pencil drawings contained within. The presence of green ribbon ties suggests the album was intended to keep loose sheets secure during transport or storage in the studio. While the exterior is utilitarian, it holds a connection to one of the most ambitious decorative projects of the American Renaissance. Sargent spent years researching religious and historical motifs to populate the walls of the library, and this album served as a repository for his visual research. The physical condition of the cover, with its scuffs and faded edges, documents the practical reality of an artist at work. It is a piece of studio ephemera that offers a glimpse into the preparation behind a major public commission. The object is held in the collection of the Boston Public Library, which houses a significant portion of Sargent's mural studies and related materials.
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Album; Studies for Israel and the Law - John Singer Sargent
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Artist Biography
John Singer Sargent
He was born in Florence to American expatriate parents and grew up moving between European cities. He never lived in America until he was middle-aged. He studied under Carolus-Duran in Paris, who taught him to paint directly from observation without underdrawing: load the brush, find the right tone, put it down in one stroke. The method required extraordinary hand-eye coordination and supreme confidence. Sargent had both.
Madame X, painted in 1884, nearly ended his career. The portrait of Virginie Amelie Avegno Gautreau, an American socialite in Parisian society, showed her in a black dress with one shoulder strap hanging off. The Salon audience was scandalised. Sargent repainted the strap in its proper position but the damage was done. He left Paris for London and rebuilt.
In London he became the portraitist of choice for the Anglo-American upper class. The technique is astonishing: he painted quickly, in long single-session sittings, and the brushwork has a fluency that makes other portraitists look laborious. The Wyndham Sisters, Lady Agnew of Lochnaw, and the portrait of Theodore Roosevelt show what he could do at full stretch.
He eventually did stop. After 1907 he largely abandoned portraits for watercolours and the murals at the Boston Public Library and the Museum of Fine Arts. The watercolours, painted on travels through Italy, Spain, and the Middle East, are looser and freer than the portraits and possibly better. He died in London in 1925, at sixty-nine.
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