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❤️💛💜Retrato de John Singer #Sargent con corbata negra y sombrero de copa, c. 1885. De Giovanni #Boldini #italiano, 1842-1931
#Acuarela, hoja: 16,5 x 12,7 cm. Galería de #Arte de la Universidad de #Yale. #museoparticular #art
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Made in France in the early 1910s, this portrait turns a society commission into a study of velocity with glamour as momentum. Italian artist Giovanni Boldini’s signature “swish” (those long, skating strokes and dissolving contours) gives Mrs. Peter Cooper Hewitt (New York–born heiress and social figure Lucy Bond Work) a kind of modern autonomy: she isn’t contained by the frame so much as she seems to pass through it. She is woman with light skin pictured full-length, standing and stepping forward as if caught in a gust of wind. Her short, softly waved brown hair frames a calm, direct gaze. Her cheeks are flushed warm pink. Lucy wears a pale, off-the-shoulder white and silvery gown painted in loose, flickering strokes that make the fabric look weightless and in motion. A long strand of pearls drops in looping arcs down her torso, and a cluster of pink roses is pinned near her waist, the petals rendered with quick, juicy touches of red and blush. Her right arm lifts a sheer wrap or scarf, which blurs into the sky like a ribbon of mist. Her left arm relaxes down, and a ring flashes green on her finger. The background is an airy landscape of mauve, gray, and peach with sweeping diagonals of ground beneath her feet. To the right, a vivid patch of green and scattered coral-pink flowers echoes the roses on her dress. Boldini’s brushwork softens edges and elongates lines so Lucy feels elegant, poised, and actively moving through space rather than posed in stillness. The pearls and roses signal wealth and cultivated femininity, yet they’re treated as lively marks like ornament becoming energy, not restraint. Lucy appears less as a fixed emblem of status than as a presence in motion. She is confident, lightly smiling, and centered as the force that sets the whole painted world of sky, fabric, and flowers into radiant drift.
"Portrait of Mrs. Peter Cooper Hewitt" by Giovanni Boldini (Italian) - Oil on canvas / c. 1911–1913 - RISD Museum (Providence, Rhode Island) #WomenInArt #GiovanniBoldini #Boldini #RISDMuseum #PortraitPainting #BelleEpoque #GildedAge #SocietyPortrait #art #artText #artwork #RhodeIslandSchoolofDesign
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Giovanni Boldini urodził się 31 grudnia 1842 r. i dziś celebrujemy jego niezwykły talent do uchwycenia elegancji Belle Époque. Portrety pełne ruchu to jego znak rozpoznawczy.
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