Cashmere (painting)

Cashmere
English: Cashmere

Artist	John Singer Sargent
Year	1908
Medium	Oil on canvas
Dimensions	71.1 cm × 109.2 cm (28.0 in × 43.0 in)

Cashmere (French: cachemire) is an oil on canvas painting by an American artist and the leading portrait painter John Singer Sargent. It was completed in c.1908 and is based on Realism style by use of painting genre. The dimensions of the painting is 71.1 by 109.2 centimeters and is housed in a private collection.

Description

The painting is of Sargent's niece, Reine Ormond, in an exotic cashmere shawl in seven different poses. Reine would have been about 11 years old. It was painted by Sargent when he was on holiday in the Italian Alps.^[1] Marcel Duchamp's nude Descending a Staircase of 1912 was also painted in transition to this painting.^[2]

References

↑ Moving Pictures: American Art and Early Film 1880 - 1910, ISBN 1-5559-5228-3
↑ The reality effect: film culture and the graphic imperative By Joel Black, ISBN 0-4159-3721-3

Article July 6, 2015 in New Zealand Herald

John Singer Sargent

Paintings	The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit (1882) El Jaleo (1882) Lady with the Rose (Charlotte Louise Burckhardt) (1882) Street in Venice (1882) Portrait of Madame X (1884) The Misses Vickers (1884) Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose (1885) Ellen Terry as Lady Macbeth (1889) Egyptians Raising Water from the Nile (1890–1891) Lady Agnew of Lochnaw (1892) Mrs. Hugh Hammersley (1892) Mr. and Mrs. I. N. Phelps Stokes (1897) The Wyndham Sisters: Lady Elcho, Mrs. Adeane, and Mrs. Tennant (1899) William M. Chase, N. A. (1902) Mrs. Fiske Warren (Gretchen Osgood) and Her Daughter Rachel (1903) Padre Sebastiano (1904–1906) Alpine Pool (1907) Cashmere (1908) The Hermit (Il solitario) (1908) Bringing Down Marble from the Quarries to Carrara (1911) Tyrolese Interior (1915) Gassed (1919) General Officers of World War I (1922)

Other	List of works by John Singer Sargent

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