Portraits
Boston born artist Charles Sprague Pearce (1851 – 1914)
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Portraits
Boston born artist Charles Sprague Pearce (1851 – 1914)
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Lamentations over the Death of the First-Born of Egypt (1877)
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I usually only post living painters excluding many artists, including the Orientalists I love. #CharlesSpraguePearce (1851-1914) was an American painter born in Boston who lived in Auvers-sur-Olse, France. This oil painting is called "The Arab Jeweler" and I love the hands & feet.
In this elegant depiction of his wife, Antonia, American artist Charles Sprague Pearce creates a marked contrast between the sharply focused female form and the indistinct, painterly background. Antonia, in a dignified pose, wears an elaborate layered long yellow dress typical of the early nineteenth century. Pearce sensitively renders the flowing silk drapery, intricate shawl and ostrich-plumed hat with fine detail. The contrasting background landscape reflects the influence that the emerging French impressionist style had on Pearce’s work. His use of varied and broken brushwork and rich, dark colors, further serve to highlight Antonia’s crisp and luminous form. Pearce’s work embodies the ideals of American expatriates working in France at the turn of the century. Born into a prominent Boston family, Pearce was recognized early on for his artistic talent, but did not pursue formal training until he moved to Paris, France in 1873. Preferring the way of life and artistic resources available there, he remained in France for the rest of his life. Pearce’s work was well received, and he exhibited frequently in both Europe and America. "The Shawl" was exhibited in the Universal Exposition of 1900 in Paris. The U.S. State Department sponsored the American art display and chose artworks by leading American artists that they believed represented the best of American character and civilization. Obviously, Pearce was an expatriate living in France at this time while Antonia was French and had been one of his art students before their marriage. Pearce's lovely depiction of his wife as a sophisticated woman with a confident attitude standing with an assertive and assured pose was hardly the image of a quiet, reserved woman like many of the other paintings of women exhibited in the American display at the Exposition.
The Shawl by Charles Sprague Pearce (American) - Oil on canvas / c. 1895-1900 - Chazen Museum of Art (Madison, Wisconsin) #womeninart #art #oilpainting #portraitofawoman #CharlesSpraguePearce #artwork #AmericanArt #ChazenMuseumofArt #AmericanArtist #style #fashion #womensart #hat #portraitofalady
