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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit (originally titled Portraits d'enfants) [1] is a painting by the American artist John Singer Sargent. The painting depicts four young girls, the daughters of Edward Darley Boit, in their family's Paris apartment. It was painted in 1882 and is now exhibited in the new Art of the ...
- 222.5 cm × 222.5 cm (87.6 in × 87.6 in)
- John Singer Sargent
Dec 6, 2023 · Another painting exhibited at the Paris Salon and designed to showcase Sargent’s talent was The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit, a commissioned life-sized group portrait of a wealthy Bostonian’s four daughters posed within the foyer of the family’s Parisian apartment.
Erica E. Hirshler. Inscriptions Lower right: John S. Sargent 1882. Provenance 1882, Edward Darley Boit (1840-1915) and his wife, Mary Louisa Cushing Boit (1845-1894), Paris and Boston; 1915, by descent to their daughters, the sitters, Mary Louisa Boit, Florence D. Boit, Jane Hubbard Boit, and Julia Overing Boit; 1919, gift of Mary Louisa Boit ...
Nov 23, 2022 · Sargent painted “The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit” when he was 26. He never topped it. By Sebastian Smee. Nov. 23, 2022. The greatest painting ever produced by an American was made...
(Mary Louisa Cushing) c. 1887. Vases at the MFA. Daughters of Edward Darley Boit. John Singer Sargent -- American painter. 1882. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Oil on canvas. 221.9 x 222.6 cm (87 3/8 x 87 5/8 in.) Gift of Mary Louisa Boit, Julia Overing Boit, Jane Hubbard Boit, and Florence D. Boit in memory of their father, Edward Darley Boit 19.124
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John Singer Sargent’s renowned portrait The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit is examined in an aesthetic, philosophical, and personal tour de force. Editorial Reviews “Thoroughly absorbing” (New York Times Book Review).
Artist: John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) Medium: Oil painting on canvas. Genre: Portrait art. Movement: Impressionism. Location: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. For an interpretation of other pictures from the 19th and 20th centuries, see: Analysis of Modern Paintings (1800-2000). Close-up of Boit sisters.
