John Singer Sargent and His Muse: Painting Love and Loss

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This sensitive and compelling biography sheds new light on John Singer Sargent’s art through an intimate history of his circle of relatives. Karen Corsano and Daniel Williman focal point especially on his niece and muse, Rose-Marie Ormond, telling her story for the primary time. In a score of paintings created between 1906 and 1912, John Singer Sargent documented the idyllic teenage summers of Rose-Marie and his own deepening affection for her serene beauty and just right-hearted, candid charm. Rose-Marie married Robert, the one son of André Michel, the most art historian of his day, who had known Sargent and reviewed his paintings within the Paris Salons of the 1880s. Robert was once a promising historian as well, until the Great War claimed him first as an infantry sergeant, then a victim, in 1914. His widow Rose-Marie served as a nurse in a rehabilitation hospital for blinded French soldiers until she too was once killed, crushed under a bombed church vault, in 1918. Sargent expressed his grief, as he expressed all his emotions, on canvas: He painted ruined French churches and, in Gassed, blinded soldiers; he made his last work of art for the Boston Public Library a cryptic memorial to Rose-Marie and her beloved Robert. Braiding together the lives and families of Rose-Marie, Robert, and John Sargent, the book spans their many worlds—Paris, the Alps, London, the Soissons front, and Boston. Drawing on a wealthy trove of letters, diaries, and journals, this beautifully illustrated history brings Sargent and his times to vivid life.

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