<  Previous MasterScans Wallpaper-quality pictures of great art from around the Web, updated daily Next >     Artist: John Singer Sargent [1856-1925] Title: Portrait of Caspar Goodrich Date: ca.1887 Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions: 66 x 48 cm (26 x 19 inches) Location: private collection Image size: 932 x 1024 pixels, 168 Kbytes Image source: Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York City                1.  Open in a new window   2.  Open in a 'chromeless' window       The Brooklyn Museum provided us with an excellent scan to be used in conjunction with the exhibition Great Expectations: John Singer Sargent Painting Children, which is underway and runs through January 16 2005; my only criticism would be that it's better than any of the scans on their own website. This superb portrait is somewhat unfinished, yet it is far from a mere sketch. Sargent typically painted portraits on a flat background or one that was merely roughed in. A notable exception that comes to mind is his great masterpiece Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose, but that's really more of a figurative painting than a portrait.

 

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