Lady in Red is a painting by John Singer Sargent which was uploaded on February 22nd, 2024.
Lady in Red
John Singer Sargent portrait of Mrs Hugh Hammersley - 1892
Mrs. Hammersley (née Mary Frances Grant, ca. 1863–ca. 1902), wife of a banker... more
Title
Lady in Red
Artist
John Singer Sargent
Medium
Painting
Description
John Singer Sargent portrait of Mrs Hugh Hammersley - 1892
Mrs. Hammersley (née Mary Frances Grant, ca. 1863–ca. 1902), wife of a banker and a fashionable London hostess, is lightly poised on an elegant French sofa. Her willowy form and candid expression suggest Sargent's ability to characterize and flatter simultaneously. Her gold-trimmed silk-velvet dress and the sumptuous setting announce his mastery of varied textures and patterns.
Mrs. Hugh Hammersley verified Sargent's skills among potential (but reluctant) English patrons when it appeared at the New Gallery in London in 1893. The positive reviews it received there and at the Salon of the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1894 finally quashed misgivings that his "Madame X" (Madame Pierre Gautreau; acc. no. 16.53) had aroused in 1884. The canvas, among the first of a series of ravishing images by Sargent of glamorous English women that culminated in "The Wyndham Sisters" (1899; acc. no. 27.67), is also a paradigm of the period's international style of society portraiture - The Met
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