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Created: March 23, 2003
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The Frieze of the Prophets

Site Copyright: Jeanne Curran and Susan R. Takata and Individual Authors, March 2003.
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This essay is based on the New York Times article by Miles Unger: Sargent's Mistake (Or Maybe Not), Sunday, March 23, 2003, Arts Section, at p. AR 35.

Harvard University's Strauss Center fo Conservation This is a very detailed site on the mural, the placement of its components, and many details. The history of the mural and its reception on this site gives a very different impression from that in Miles Unger's article. Compare them. Take the trouble to go through the site carefully. Details are presented by clicking on the two diamonds on the lower right side. They are definitely worth the time. jeanne

Why this painting this week? Well, as we study the dimension of art in the expression of complex ideas and issues, Sargent's mural on the Triumph of Religion is an important example of a well known artist trying to describe and shape his culture as he saw and understood it, and to leave that legacy in murals fairly permanently.

. Study for “Madame Gautreau (Madame X)”, ca. 1883, detail Watercolor and graphite on paper, 35.5 x 25.2 cm. Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop. Link added March 23, 2003.

Madame X (Madame Pierre Gautreau) 1883–1884. John Singer Sargent (1856–1925). American. Oil on canvas; 82 1/8 x 43 1/4 in. (208.6 x 109.9 cm). In the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. This is the painting for which the watercolor above was a study. jeanne. Link added March 23, 2003. Backup.

Claude Monet Painting at the Edge of the Wood Portrait by John Singer Sargent of Claude Monet, who greatly influenced him. Essay that is helpful on linking Sargent to the Impressionists. jeanne. March 23, 2003.

Mary Crowninshield Endicott Chamberlain (Mrs. Joseph Chamberlain), 1902 Portrait by John Singer Sargent. National Gallery of Art. Washington, D.C. Backup.

Portraits of the Wertheimer Family on Exhibit at The Jewish Museum in New York. Backup on portraits of the Wertheimer family.