John Singer Sargent and his muse : painting love and loss / Karen Corsano and Daniel Williman ; foreword by Richard Ormond.
2014
ND237.S3
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Title
John Singer Sargent and his muse : painting love and loss / Karen Corsano and Daniel Williman ; foreword by Richard Ormond.
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ISBN
9781442230514 ebook
1442230517
9781442230507 cloth : alk. paper
9781442230514 electronic
1442230509
1442269987
9781442269989
1442230517
9781442230507 cloth : alk. paper
9781442230514 electronic
1442230509
1442269987
9781442269989
Published
Lanham : Rowman and Littlefield, [2014]
Language
English
Language Note
English.
Description
1 online resource (xxi, 305 pages, [8] pages of plates )
Other Standard Identifiers
40024039227
Call Number
ND237.S3
System Control No.
(OCoLC)1253443363
Summary
This sensitive and compelling biography sheds new light on John Singer Sargent's art through an intimate history of his family. Karen Corsano and Daniel Williman focus especially on his niece and muse, Rose-Marie Ormond, who married the only son of André Michel, the foremost art historian of his day. Robert was a promising historian as well, until the Great War claimed him in 1914. His widow Rose-Marie served as a nurse for blinded French soldiers until she too was killed in 1918. Sargent expressed his grief on canvas, painting ruined French churches and, in Gassed, blinded soldiers; he made h.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Formatted Contents Note
The painter and the critic : John Sargent and André Michel
The Ormonds and the Sargents
Rose-Marie Ormond
Robert André-Michel
Robert's war, 1914
Rose-Marie's war, 1914-1918
The Paris gun
Sargent's war, 1914-1919
The end of The triumph of religion
Epilogues.
The Ormonds and the Sargents
Rose-Marie Ormond
Robert André-Michel
Robert's war, 1914
Rose-Marie's war, 1914-1918
The Paris gun
Sargent's war, 1914-1919
The end of The triumph of religion
Epilogues.
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Print version: John Singer Sargent and his muse Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2014]
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