Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose
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Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose | |
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Oil on canvas | |
Dimensions | 174.0 cm × 153.7 cm (68.5 in × 60.5 in) |
Location | Tate Britain, London |
Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose is an
The painting depicts two small children dressed in white who are lighting
The work is set in an English garden at Farnham House in Broadway in the Cotswolds, where Sargent spent the summer of 1885 with Millet shortly after moving to England from Paris to escape the scandal caused by his 1884 painting Portrait of Madame X. The author Robert Louis Stevenson was also staying there while writing A Child's Garden of Verses and his verses inspired Sargent.
Sargent also took inspiration from the lanterns that he saw hanging among trees and lilies while boating on the River Thames at Pangbourne with American artist Edwin Austin Abbey in September 1885.
Sargent wanted to capture the exact level of light at dusk so he painted the picture
The work received a mixed reception at the
See also
References
- ^ "Tate Gallery". Retrieved February 5, 2013.
- ^ a b c "Catalogue entry: 'Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose', John Singer Sargent, 1885-6". Tate. Retrieved 31 May 2017.
- ^ ""Ye Shepherds Tell Me" by Joseph Mazzinghi". John Singer Sargent Virtual Gallery. Archived from the original on 3 June 2013.
- ISBN 0300071779.
- ^ "Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose, John Singer Sargent, 1885–6". Tate. Retrieved 31 May 2017.
- Film about Carnation, Lily, Lily Rose – Tate
- A video discussion about Sargent's Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose Archived 2014-10-07 at the Wayback Machine from Smarthistory at Khan Academy.
- A Touch of Blossom: John Singer Sargent and the Queer Flora of Fin-de-siècle Art, Alison Mairi Syme, pp. 155–166
- John S. Sargent, His Life and Work: With an Exhaustive Catalogue of His Works, William Howe Downes p. 24, 140–1
Further reading
- Herdrich, Stephanie L; Weinberg, H. Barbara (2000). American drawings and watercolors in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: John Singer Sargent. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art. ISBN 0870999524.
External links
- Media related to Carnation Lily Lily Rose by John Singer Sargent at Wikimedia Commons