Sargent's Daughters
One of the most celebrated painters of his day, John Singer Sargent defines for many the style, optimism and opulence of turn-of-the-century America. Among his renowned portraits, "The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit" stands alongside "Madame X" and "Lady Agnew of Lochnaw" as one of Sargent's immortal images. This painting depicts four young sisters in the spacious foyer of the family's Paris apartment, strangely dispersed across the murky tones and depths of the square canvas, as though...
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One of the most celebrated painters of his day, John Singer Sargent defines for many the style, optimism and opulence of turn-of-the-century America. Among his renowned ...The New York Times - Megan MarshallSargent makes you feel simultaneously drawn into and excluded from the sisters' world, a phenomenon that Erica E. Hirshler…explores in intriguing detail in her new book, Sargent's Daughters. "From this singular picture," she explains, "a novel unfolds." And her "biography" of this painting—written after she documented the Boit sisters' lives and researched every significant detail in the painting…is that thoroughly absorbing novel.
\ Megan MarshallSargent makes you feel simultaneously drawn into and excluded from the sisters' world, a phenomenon that Erica E. Hirshler…explores in intriguing detail in her new book, Sargent's Daughters. "From this singular picture," she explains, "a novel unfolds." And her "biography" of this painting—written after she documented the Boit sisters' lives and researched every significant detail in the painting…is that thoroughly absorbing novel.\ —The New York Times\ \
