Book Description
Charming selection of portraits of children by John Singer Sargent and his contemporaries. Masterpieces and lesser-known works from the end of the nineteenth century, a golden age of style and luxury. Lively commentaries offer glimpses into the nature of yesterday’s childhood. Works by American and European artists from collections all over the world.
About the Author
Barbara Gallati is Curator of American Art at the Brooklyn Museum of Art and a lecturer in art history. She has written widely on the subject of American art, including the books Masters of Color and Light: Homer, Sargent, and the American Watercolor Movement (1998) and Winslow Homer: Illustrating America (2000).
Children of the Gilded Era: Portraits of Sargent, Renoir, Cassatt and their Contemporaries SYNOPSIS
Children of the Gilded Era is a charming selection of portraits of children by John Singer Sargent and his contemporaries. Features masterpieces and lesser-known works from the end of the nineteenth century, a golden age of luxury and style.
FROM THE CRITICS
Christopher Benfey - The New York Times
Barbara Dayer Gallati's Children of the Gilded Era: Portraits by Sargent, Renoir, Cassatt, and Their Contemporaries makes a beguiling stocking stuffer, with its worldly portraits ''intended both to preserve the likeness of a precious child and to function as objects of aesthetic value.'' Here the inanimate objects sometimes steal the show: the runaway toy horse and bright red cart in Eakins's studious ''Baby at Play,'' or the outsize porcelain vases that convey as much emotion as the blase older sisters in Sargent's masterpiece ''The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit.'' It is good to be reminded what a great painter of children Cecilia Beaux was, especially when she compels us, as in her oddly angled portrait of her wide-awake niece, ''Ernesta With Nurse,'' to view the world from a child's point of view.
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