John Singer Sargent / Venetian Glass Workers / 1880/82

John Singer Sargent
Venetian Glass Workers
1880/82
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Creator Name: Sargent, John Singer
Creator Nationality: North American; American
Creator Role: Artist
Creator Dates/Places: American; 1856-1925 North and Central America,North America,United Sta
Creator Active Place: North and Central America,North America,United Sta
Creator Name-CRT: John Singer Sargent
Title: Venetian Glass Workers
Title Type: preferred
View: Full View
Creation Start Date: 1880
Creation End Date: 1882
Creation Date: 1880/82
Creation Place: Europe,Italy,Veneto (region),Venezia (province),Venice
Object Type: Paintings
Materials and Techniques: oil on canvas
Dimensions: unframed:56.5 x 84.5 cm (22 1/4 x 33 1/4 in.)framed: 84.5 x 114 cm (33 1/4 x 44 7/8 in.)
Inscriptions: Signed lower left: "John S. Sargent"
AMICA Contributor: The Art Institute of Chicago
Owner Location: Chicago, Illinois, USA
ID Number: 1933.1217
Credit Line: The Art Institute of Chicago, Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection
Rights: http://www.artic.edu/aic/rights/main.rights.html
Context: Venetian Glass Workers is one of many genre scenes featuring workers painted by John Singer Sargent at the beginning of the 1880s. In this painting, Sargent focused on the contrast between the dank surroundings and the scintillating products of the workers' labor, subtly noting the separation of native production and tourist consumption of Venetian glassware. The laborers participate in a process that transforms long, thin glass tubes into beads. The woman in the right foreground slices glass tubes into uniform lengths that will be placed in a metal drum with an abrasive mixture. When the drum is heated and turned, the mixture smooths the edges of the cut glass and forms rounded beads. Women employed as bead stringers would then prepare the multi-hued, sparkling bits of glass for sale.
AMICA ID: AIC_.1933.1217
AMICA Library Year: 1998
Media Metadata Rights: Copyright The Art Institute of Chicago, 1998

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