John Singer Sargent
John Singer Sargent’s portraits of legendary and aristocratic women are finally getting their due at a comprehensive new exhibit. View our gallery.

Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts

Oil on canvas, 28 ¼ x 23 ½ (73.2 x 59.5)
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts

Pencil, 12 1/8” x 8 ¼”
Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Francis Ormond and Miss Emily Sargent, 1931

Oil on canvas, 29 1/2 x 25 in. (74.9 x 63.5 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Francis Ormond (née violet Sargent), 1950

Oil on canvas, 43 x 34 ½ (190.2 x 87.5)
Philadelphia Museum of Art W.P. Wilstach Collection

Pencil, 9 ¾” x 13 4/16”
Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, 1970, Charles and Anita Blatt Fund, John Wilmerding Gift, Rogers Fund

Oil on canvas
Courtesy Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska
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