"PARIS - Despite having lived and worked in Paris for roughly a decade, John Singer Sargent is difficult to pin to the city in discernible artistic ways. The peripatetic painter's portrait subjects are as geographically scattered as his own travels across Europe, where he was raised by American parents. For John Singer Sargent: Dazzling Paris at the Musée d'Orsay, the curators set themselves quite the challenge in gathering works linked to his time in the city from 1874 to '84 and, apparently, beyond,"
"Dazzling Paris opened in September on the heels of two recent major shows: Sargent and Fashion at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and Tate Britain, and Sargent and Paris at the Metropolitan Museum of Art - whose curator Stephanie Herdrich co-organized this show at the d'Orsay. However, the artist still remains relatively obscure in France. The curators claim this to be the first monographic show by any French museum."
John Singer Sargent lived and worked in Paris for roughly a decade but produced surprisingly few Paris-focused subjects. Portrait sitters reflect his peripatetic life and travels across Europe and beyond. The exhibition gathers works linked to his time in the city from about 1874 to 1884 and includes an incidental 1879 study of the Luxembourg Gardens near his studio. The presentation follows recent major Sargent shows and is presented as the first monographic Sargent exhibition at a French museum. Early galleries emphasize plein-air sketches and travel vistas before moving to large-scale society portraits.
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