1878 (ca.), John Singer Sargent, Atlantic Sunset -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) (special exhibition)
From the museum label: Sargent was keenly interested in the contemporary art scene in Paris. In 1876 he attended the second exhibition of the Impressionists and befriended founding member Claude Monet. He would later look to Monet for guidance with his plein-air work, and the two artists remained friends into the twentieth century. Sargent's contact with Monet certainly stimulated his interest in painting outdoors. Here, he focuses on recording the transitory effect of shimmering light as the sun sets behind an abandoned ship at sea. He based this composition on a sunset that he witnessed during one of his Atlantic crossings in 1876. The painting is inscribed to the landlord of his Paris studio on the rue Notre-Dame-des-Champs, into which he moved in 1875.
1878 (ca.), John Singer Sargent, Atlantic Sunset -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) (special exhibition)
From the museum label: Sargent was keenly interested in the contemporary art scene in Paris. In 1876 he attended the second exhibition of the Impressionists and befriended founding member Claude Monet. He would later look to Monet for guidance with his plein-air work, and the two artists remained friends into the twentieth century. Sargent's contact with Monet certainly stimulated his interest in painting outdoors. Here, he focuses on recording the transitory effect of shimmering light as the sun sets behind an abandoned ship at sea. He based this composition on a sunset that he witnessed during one of his Atlantic crossings in 1876. The painting is inscribed to the landlord of his Paris studio on the rue Notre-Dame-des-Champs, into which he moved in 1875.