John Singer Sargent / The Birthday / 1887

John Singer Sargent
The Birthday
1887
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Creator Name: Sargent, John Singer
Creator Nationality: North American; American
Creator Role: painter
Creator Dates/Places: 1856 - 1925
Gender: M
Creator Name-CRT: John Singer Sargent
Title: The Birthday
View: front
Creation Start Date: 1887
Creation End Date: 1887
Creation Date: 1887
Object Type: Paintings
Materials and Techniques: oil on canvas
Dimensions: H.24 x W.29 in.
AMICA Contributor: The Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Owner Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
ID Number: 62.84
Credit Line: The Ethel Morrison Van Derlip and The John R. Van Derlip Funds
Rights: http://www.artsmia.org/restrictions.html
Context:

This vivaciously painted domestic subject belongs with a group of similar interior scenes with portraits of friends executed by Sargent in the 1880s. It depicts the family of the well-known French artists Albert Besnard (1849-1934) and his wife Charlotte Dubray (1855-1931), whom Sargent had befriended by 1883.

AMICA ID: MIA_.62.84
Component Measured: canvas
Measurement Unit: in
AMICA Library Year: 1998
Media Metadata Rights: ?The Minneapolis Institute of Arts

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