The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris (56 page)
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Authors: David Mccullough
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Augusta Saint-Gaudens
by Thomas Wilmer Dewing.
Living room interior of the apartment at 3 rue Herschel by Augusta Saint-Gaudens.
Farragut Monument
, Madison Square Park, New York City, unveiled in 1881. In the distance, Saint-Gaudens’s
Diana
stands atop the tower of Madison Square Garden, built later.
Reading Le Figaro
by Mary Cassatt, the portrait of her mother, Mrs. Robert (Katherine Johnson) Cassatt, that marked her arrival as an Impressionist.
Lydia at a Tapestry Frame
by Mary Cassatt (above). Lydia Cassatt, who suffered from Bright’s disease, posed repeatedly for her sister, Mary, as in
The Cup of Tea
(below).
Carolus-Duran
by John Singer Sargent, the portrait of the celebrated French master that launched Sargent’s career at age twenty-three.
Vernon Lee
by Sargent.
Sketches of Sargent reading Shakespeare (top) and painting by his fellow student and roommate James Carroll Beckwith.
El Jaleo
(left top) and
The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit
(left bottom) by John Singer Sargent.
El Jaleo, The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit,
and Sargent’s
Madame X
(Madame Pierre Gautreau) were all painted in Paris within just two years, 1882 to 1884, when Sargent was still in his twenties. Below, the painter in his studio with the portrait that caused a sensation like no other.
