Dr. Pozzi at Home
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Dr Pozzi at Home is an 1881 oil painting by the American artist
The aesthetic and charismatic Dr Pozzi was painted around the age of 35, but the composition departs markedly from the usual formal academic portraits of medical doctors in sombre professional clothing. Pozzi is depicted standing informally "at home", dressed in a voluminous full-length bright scarlet
Sargent chose not to exhibit his larger-than-life-size portrait of Pozzi in Paris, perhaps to protect Pozzi's reputation: it was first exhibited at the
The portrait was retained by Dr Pozzi until his death in 1918, and then kept by his widow and later inherited by his son, Jean Pozzi. It was acquired by Armand Hammer after Jean's death in 1967; and after Hammer's death in 1990, the painting was transferred to the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles in 1991.
An exhibition which included the painting in 2015, at the National Portrait Gallery, London and later that year at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, was the trigger for the 2019 book by Julian Barnes, The Man in the Red Coat.
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Contemporaneous photograph of Pozzi in more formal attire, by Paul Nadar
See also
References
- Dr. Pozzi Comes Home, Hammer Museum, October 7, 2014
- Dr. Pozzi at Home, 1881, Metropolitan Museum of Art, John Singer Sargent
- Armand Hammer Collection, Hammer Museum
- Dr. Pozzi at home: gynecologist, soldier, socialite, Hektoen International Journal
- "The Doctor Is In: John Singer Sargent's Dr. Pozzi at Home", Juliet Bellow, American Art, 2012 26:2, 42-67
- Exhibition review: ‘Sargent: Portraits of Artists and Friends’ in London, Country Life, February 14, 2015
- "Book of the week: The Man in the Red Coat by Julian Barnes", Evening Standard, 8 November 2019
- Meet Dr Love: the infallibly seductive, pioneering French gynaecologist, The Spectator, 2 November 2019