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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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Italian artist Giovanni Boldini painted this work in 1872, shortly after moving to Paris, at a time when the city was undergoing rapid transformation and the era known as the Belle Époque was beginning to take shape. A young white woman sits slightly turned on a green slatted park bench, framed tightly in a vertical view. Her brown hair is swept into a soft chignon, topped with a small hat trimmed with feathers or flowers. She wears a lustrous dark dress that pools into heavy folds, its sheen catching the light against frothy white cuffs and a pale blue ruffle at her throat. Her right hand rises to her lips in a half-thoughtful gesture, while her left arm wraps around a pink bundle like a shawl or bouquet resting in her lap. Beside her, a large straw basket tilts on the bench, its woven ribs echoing the bench’s rhythm. Behind her, dense shrubs, climbing greenery, and a scattering of red blossoms dissolve into quick strokes, while a pale sky glows above, turning the chic Bois de Boulogne into a softly blurred, rustling backdrop for this moment of pause. Boldini paints this woman at rest yet mentally in motion, catching her in that suspended instant when the mind wanders and the body forgets to pose. Her hand at her mouth, the turned-away gaze and slightly tense shoulders hint at shyness or worry, even as her fashionable dress and carefully arranged hair mark her as a participant in modern urban leisure. The public park evoked by the title “Bois” becomes a stage where middle-class women can stroll, sit and be seen. Brushwork quickens in the foliage and gravel path, echoing Impressionist experiments around him, while the figure remains sharply defined, a living portrait anchored in the middle of the scene. The panel fuses genre scene and society portrait, turning this unidentified sitter into one of the many anonymous, stylish women who animated the new Belle Époque city and claimed space and visibility within the rapidly changing city around them.
"Sulla panchina al Bois (On the Bench at the Bois)" by Giovanni Boldini (Italian) – Oil on panel / 1872 – Palazzo Blu (Pisa, Italy) #WomenInArt #GiovanniBoldini #Boldini #PalazzoBlu #BelleEpoque #art #artText #artwork #BlueskyArt #PortraitofaWoman #arte #ItalianArtist #GenrePainting #BelleÉpoque
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