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The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit (originally titled Portraits d'enfants) 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.
The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit was painted in Paris in the autumn of 1882, one of a number of portraits of members of the American expatriate community that Sargent made in the French capital in the late 1870s and early 1880s.
Nov 23, 2022 · Sargent painted “The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit” when he was 26. He never topped it.
Apr 18, 2018 · This book is about John Singer Sargent’s The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit, an unconventional 1882 portrait of Edward and Isa Boit’s four daughters. The book talks about the expatriate Boit family, the lives of the four girls, Sargent (one of my favorite artists ever), and the history of the painting itself.
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.
The four Daughters of Edward Darley Boit are, from left to right: Mary Louisa (1874-1945, about 8 years old at the time), Flourennce (1868-1919, about 14 yrs old), Jane (1870-1955, about 12 yrs old), and Julia (1878-1969, about 4 yrs old).
The Boit Sisters, as the painting is often called, was painted in Paris and shown at the official Salon of 1883 where it was well received, eliciting positive comments from the novelist and critic Henry James who, like his friend Sargent, understood the world of American expatriates.
