DOI Heft:
No. 83 (February, 1900)
DOI Artikel:Baldry, Alfred Lys: The art of J. S. Sargent, R. A., [1]
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19784#0030
John S. Sargent, R.A.
art. Towards the close of his period of training in From Paris the young artist's next move was to
the studio of the Boulevard de Mont Parnasse he Madrid, where he was attracted by the glamour of
painted a portrait of his master that was not only a the canvases by Velasquez in the galleries of the
masterly summary of all the knowledge that he had Prado. This journey was almost in the nature of
acquired during the preceding years, but was, as a pilgrimage, the visit of a devotee to a shrine that
well, a forecast of the work that he has done since, contained the most precious relics that he could
It had the French spirit that was to be expected choose for worship. Wisely he had waited till his
from a student in such a studio and under such a aesthetic intelligence had so matured that he could
master, but it had also a good deal of the Sargent grasp the perfection of the greatest painter that
who is to-day not a pupil in Paris but a leader of perhaps the world has ever known. He went not
the English school. The attention it excited was as a sightseer to wonder at things he could not
considerable, for in it experts perceived the arrival grasp, and to sigh over a secret that would remain
of an artist who was to go far and to take his place sealed to him because his inexperience would not
indisputably among the elect. permit him to find the key to the puzzle, but rather
art. Towards the close of his period of training in From Paris the young artist's next move was to
the studio of the Boulevard de Mont Parnasse he Madrid, where he was attracted by the glamour of
painted a portrait of his master that was not only a the canvases by Velasquez in the galleries of the
masterly summary of all the knowledge that he had Prado. This journey was almost in the nature of
acquired during the preceding years, but was, as a pilgrimage, the visit of a devotee to a shrine that
well, a forecast of the work that he has done since, contained the most precious relics that he could
It had the French spirit that was to be expected choose for worship. Wisely he had waited till his
from a student in such a studio and under such a aesthetic intelligence had so matured that he could
master, but it had also a good deal of the Sargent grasp the perfection of the greatest painter that
who is to-day not a pupil in Paris but a leader of perhaps the world has ever known. He went not
the English school. The attention it excited was as a sightseer to wonder at things he could not
considerable, for in it experts perceived the arrival grasp, and to sigh over a secret that would remain
of an artist who was to go far and to take his place sealed to him because his inexperience would not
indisputably among the elect. permit him to find the key to the puzzle, but rather