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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.
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...
The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit (also known as The Boit Sisters), depicts the four young Boit girls - Florence, Jane, Mary Louisa and Julia - in the foyer of their family's Paris apartment. It is currently displayed in the new Art of the Americas Wing of the MFA, Boston, where it is flanked by the two tall blue-and-white Japanese vases ...
Mar 28, 2023 · The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit (originally titled Portraits d'enfants) is a painting by 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 Americas Wing of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.
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. Jpg: mfa / Jim's Fine Art Collection.
John Singer Sargent. The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit, 1882. About the Artwork. 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.
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