John Singer Sargent 🖼️ Éblouir Paris

 If you want to draw ✍️ like John Singer Sargent, get tracing paper & make copies. 

It’s like walking in Sargent’s shoes 👞 

 John Singer Sargent - Dazzling Paris exhibition opened at d’Orsay this week.

I was there ASAP 👍 It continues till 11 January, 2025.

Even if you saw FASHION BY SARGENT at the London Tate & Boston museum,

This exhibit focuses is on Sargent’s early years 

Salon portrait of Carolus-Duran by SARGENT

As an 18 year old student in Carolus-Duran’s  atelier in 1874,

And as a successful society portrait painter in Paris till 1884.

Can we ever see too much Sargent? I don’t think so.

Sargent’s mastery and prodigious talent will remain a mystery.

But first some background - Sargent’s mother, Mary Newbold Sargent was an American eccentric heiress, 

She dragged her family endlessly around Europe, in a nomadic way of life.

John and his sister, Emily visited every museum in Europe and

Sketched ✍️ every monument beside their mother, an amateur watercolorist.

John, born in Florence, Italy in 1856, was fluent in many languages and played the piano beautifully, so he was ready to enter Paris society as the perfect ex-pat. Sargent’s portrait of his teacher, Carolus-Duran (see above) was his first entry to the Paris Salon  & immediately applauded.