1886, John Singer Sargent, Self-Portrait -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) (special exhibition)
From the museum label: This self-portrait was painted at a significant moment of Sargent's career-just after he left Paris and settled permanently in London. He was only thirty years old. A Scottish collector of portraits of modern artists commissioned this work from him, an unusual choice given the painter's youth and recent arrival in the country. In 1887, one year after Sargent completed this self-portrait, Henry James would write, "Mr. Sargent is so young ... that, in spite ... of the admirable works he has already produced, his future is the most valuable thing he has to show. We may still ask ourselves what he will do with it." Using the lessons he had learned in Paris, Sargent would quickly achieve success in Britain and the United States.
1886, John Singer Sargent, Self-Portrait -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) (special exhibition)
From the museum label: This self-portrait was painted at a significant moment of Sargent's career-just after he left Paris and settled permanently in London. He was only thirty years old. A Scottish collector of portraits of modern artists commissioned this work from him, an unusual choice given the painter's youth and recent arrival in the country. In 1887, one year after Sargent completed this self-portrait, Henry James would write, "Mr. Sargent is so young ... that, in spite ... of the admirable works he has already produced, his future is the most valuable thing he has to show. We may still ask ourselves what he will do with it." Using the lessons he had learned in Paris, Sargent would quickly achieve success in Britain and the United States.