Out-of-Doors Study by Sargent in the Brooklyn Museum, August 2007

Accession # 20.640
Artist: John Singer Sargent
Title: An Out-of-Doors Study
Date: 1889
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 25 15/16 x 31 3/4 in. (65.9 x 80.7 cm) Frame: 41 1/2 x 48 5/8 x 6 in. (105.4 x 123.5 x 15.2 cm)
Signed: Signed lower right: "John S. Sargent"
Credit Line: Museum Collection Fund
Location: American Identities: Expanding Horizons
Accession # 20.640

John Singer Sargent's original title for this painting- An Out-of-Doors Study- raises many questions about what the actual subject of this work might be. Was he referring to the painting we see being executed by his friend, the French painter Paul Helleu? or was he indicating his own technical experiments with an Impressionist method of working en plein air (painting outdoors)?


Text from: www.brooklynmuseum.org/research/luce/object.php?id=6466 and the Brooklyn Museum label.