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Ralph Wormeley Curtis
John Singer Sargent American
Not on view
This sketch of Sargent’s distant cousin Ralph Wormeley Curtis (1854–1922) was made at Scheveningen, a seaside resort in the Netherlands that Sargent visited with Curtis and their mutual friend Francis Brooks Chadwick in late summer 1880. Sargent’s portrait of Chadwick also hangs in this gallery.
Sargent’s impressionistic sketch is painted very thinly on one of the small panels that he carried with him on his travels in these early years. He leaves more than half the picture space empty to suggest the sandy dune while the lounging body of Curtis divides the composition at a dynamic angle.
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