John Singer Sargent’s Breakfast In The Loggia
ha, just found this posted. It is of my great, great Aunt, Jane Emmet de Glehn.
Jane de Glehn in a Gondola, ca. 1902, by John Singer Sargent
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![In a Garden, Corfu (Jane Emmet de Glehn) by John Singer Sargent, 1909,Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago
This is of one of my relatives that was painted by Sargent, he did another one and I will post that eventually too. I will also be posting paintings by a few of the Emmet painters from that era.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Emmet_de_Glehn
Following her marriage to de Glehn, the couple honeymooned in Cornwall, England and vacationed in Paris and Venice and made a permanent home in London. In England Jane continued to draw and paint, exhibiting her work at the New English Art Club, the Royal Academy and the Royal Hibernian Academy. She worked mainly in the mediums of chalk and charcoal. The young couple become frequent travelling companions of the American painter John Singer Sargent, whom Jane Emmet de Glehn had met at performance of the dancer Carmencita in 1890,[9] and between 1905 and 1914 the trio often depicted each other in each of their works whilst travelling throughout Europe.[10]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_llazrw5c1m1qh1e4vo1_500.jpg)
In a Garden, Corfu (Jane Emmet de Glehn) by John Singer Sargent, 1909,Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago
This is of one of my relatives that was painted by Sargent, he did another one and I will post that eventually too. I will also be posting paintings by a few of the Emmet painters from that era.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Emmet_de_Glehn
Following her marriage to de Glehn, the couple honeymooned in Cornwall, England and vacationed in Paris and Venice and made a permanent home in London. In England Jane continued to draw and paint, exhibiting her work at the New English Art Club, the Royal Academy and the Royal Hibernian Academy. She worked mainly in the mediums of chalk and charcoal. The young couple become frequent travelling companions of the American painter John Singer Sargent, whom Jane Emmet de Glehn had met at performance of the dancer Carmencita in 1890,[9] and between 1905 and 1914 the trio often depicted each other in each of their works whilst travelling throughout Europe.[10]
Capri - John Singer Sargent, 1878
what a beauty of a painting
One thing Sargent was known for was his sense of distance (both physical and psychological) from his subjects. Notice how there’s a voyeuristic aspect to the perspective - we are suspended in the air (or on perhaps another balcony), looking at the dancers, yet not included in this leisure moment.
(Source: cavetocanvas)
