1879, John Singer Sargent, Edouard Pailleron -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) (special exhibition)
From the museum label: Edouard Pailleron (1834-1899) was a rising French poet and playwright known for his comedies of manners, which satirized the upper classes of society. Having admired Sargent's work at the Paris Salon, he commissioned a portrait of himself, followed by one of his wife and another of their two children (both in this gallery), quickly becoming the artist's most significant early patron. Pailleron eschewed more formal attire in favor of his working jacket and half-tucked shirt. Painted in Sargent's Paris studio, the work represents Pailleron as a casually stylish-and literary-bohemian holding a dog-eared book. The three portraits were prominently displayed in the Pailleron family apartment, where they were seen and admired by their artistic and literary friends.
1879, John Singer Sargent, Edouard Pailleron -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) (special exhibition)
From the museum label: Edouard Pailleron (1834-1899) was a rising French poet and playwright known for his comedies of manners, which satirized the upper classes of society. Having admired Sargent's work at the Paris Salon, he commissioned a portrait of himself, followed by one of his wife and another of their two children (both in this gallery), quickly becoming the artist's most significant early patron. Pailleron eschewed more formal attire in favor of his working jacket and half-tucked shirt. Painted in Sargent's Paris studio, the work represents Pailleron as a casually stylish-and literary-bohemian holding a dog-eared book. The three portraits were prominently displayed in the Pailleron family apartment, where they were seen and admired by their artistic and literary friends.