"Sargent: Portraits of Artists and Friends," currently showing at the Met, is a virtual vade mecum of l9th European culture, as seen from the perspective of the great and often quirky transatlantic portraitist. There is Ellen Terry as Lady Macbeth (1889) and a sketch of Yeats (1908). The impressionist style of "Claude Monet Painting by the Edge of a Wood"(1885) shows Sargent's mirror neurons at work. Henry James, whose novels provided a similar, albeit fictionalized portrait of European cultural...
"Sargent: Portraits of Artists and Friends," currently showing at the Met, is a virtual vade mecum of l9th European culture, as seen from the perspective of the great and often quirky transatlantic portraitist. There is Ellen Terry as Lady Macbeth (1889) and a sketch of Yeats (1908). The impressionist style of "Claude Monet Painting by the Edge of a Wood"(1885) shows Sargent's mirror neurons at work. Henry James, whose novels provided a similar, albeit fictionalized portrait of European cultural...
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