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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 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).
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.
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.
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.
The iconic, haunting The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit is here: learn more about Sargent's masterpiece and the four girls in the picture.
