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Portrait of Lisa Colt Curtis

1898
(American, 1856–1925)
America
oil on canvas
Framed: 249 x 134 x 9.5 cm (98 1/16 x 52 3/4 x 3 3/4 in.); Unframed: 219.3 x 104.8 cm (86 5/16 x 41 1/4 in.)
Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund 1998.168
Location: 208 American Gilded Age and Realism
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Although known as John Singer Sargent today, he almost never used his middle name during his lifetime.

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One of the most sought-after painters of his era, Sargent achieved considerable critical and financial success portraying cosmopolitan members of high society on both sides of the Atlantic. Here, the artist depicts an acquaintance—a relative of the Colt firearms family—who had recently married his distant cousin Ralph. In her portrait, Curtis wears an elegant satin dress and poses as if she were welcoming guests into her palatial Venetian home. The painting apparently was a wedding gift to the couple by the artist; its inscription at the top right reads, "To Ralph and Mrs. Ralph, John S. Sargent 1898."
Vertically oriented oil, full-length portrait of Lisa Colt Curtis, a woman with a light skin tone standing and leaning against a table behind her, looking slightly to our left with a faint smile, her wavy red-brown hair pulled into a bun. She wears a long, beige grey, off the shoulder dress with silver detailing that cinches at the waist, and continues into a narrow skirt, another layer of the skirt trailing behind her.

Portrait of Lisa Colt Curtis

1898

John Singer Sargent

(American, 1856–1925)
America

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