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The picture grew out of a series of atmospheric views of working-class women in darkened interiors that the artist produced on two trips to Venice between 1880 and 1882. Undertaken in Paris shortly thereafter, this painting transforms those techniques in the portrayal of a fashionable sitter, similarly combining the gestural brushwork of the Impressionists with a heightened chiaroscuro (light and shade) drawn from Spanish Baroque artists such as Diego Vel\u00e1zquez. Such works helped to establish Sargent\u2019s reputation in Paris as a daring and original painter.<\/p>\n","short_description":"In this depiction of Louise Escudier, Sargent undercut traditional portrait conventions by prioritizing the dramatic effects of light and dark in a Parisian apartment. It's based on a series of atmospheric views of working-class women in darkened interiors that the artist produced on two trips to Venice  between 1880 and 1882. These compositions helped to establish Sargent\u2019s reputation in Paris as a daring and original painter.","dimensions":"129.5 \u00d7 91.4 cm (51 \u00d7 36 in.)","dimensions_detail":[{"depth":null,"width":91,"height":129,"diameter":null,"clarification":null}],"medium_display":"Oil on canvas","inscriptions":"Signed recto, bottom-right, on ground, in red paint: \"John S. Sargent 1882\".","credit_line":"Bequest of Brooks McCormick","catalogue_display":null,"publication_history":"\u201cCarnegie Sells Two Sargents for $60,000,\u201d <em>Art News<\/em> 22, no. 5 (Nov. 10, 1923): 1.\n\nAnnual Report (Art Institute of Chicago, 2007\u20132008), 19.\n\nJudith A. Barter, et al., <em>The Age of American Impressionism: Masterpieces from the Art Institute of Chicago<\/em> (Art Institute of Chicago, 2011), cat. 34 (ill.).\n\nAnnelise K. Madsen et al., <em>John Singer Sargent and Chicago's Guilded Age<\/em>, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 2018), 14, 97\u201398, 203, cat. 13, fig. 66 (ill.).\n\nStephanie L. Herdrich, <em>Sargent and Paris<\/em>, exh. cat. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2025), 140, 144, 227, pl. 60 (ill.).\n\nCaroline Corbeau-Parsons and Paul Perrin, eds., <em>John Singer Sargent. \u00c9blouir Paris<\/em>, exh. cat. (Mus\u00e9e d'Orsay, 2025), 172\u20133, 235, cat. 95 (ill.).","exhibition_history":"Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, <em>Twenty\u2013second Annual International Exhibition of Paintings<\/em>, Apr. 26\u2013June 17, 1923, cat. 60.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, <em>John Singer Sargent and Chicago\u2019s Gilded Age<\/em>, July 1\u2013Sept. 30, 2018, cat. 13.\n\nNew York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, <em>Sargent and Paris<\/em>, Apr. 27\u2013Aug. 3, 2025, no cat. no.; Paris, Mus\u00e9e d'Orsay, <em>John Singer Sargent. \u00c9blouir Paris<\/em>, Sept. 22, 2025\u2013Jan. 11, 2026, cat. 95.","provenance_text":"The sitter, Louise Lefevre (1861\u20131950), Paris, 1882; sold through Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, to Charles Deering (1852\u20131927), Chicago and Miami, Nov. 1923 [\u201cCarnegie Sells Two Sargents for $60,000,\u201d <em>Art News<\/em>, Nov. 10, 1923, 1]; by descent to his daughter, Marion Deering McCormick (1886\u20131965), Chicago, 1927; by descent to her son, Brooks McCormick (1917\u20132006), Chicago, 1965; bequeathed to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2007.","edition":null,"publishing_verification_level":"Web Cataloged","internal_department_id":21,"fiscal_year":2008,"fiscal_year_deaccession":null,"is_public_domain":true,"is_zoomable":true,"max_zoom_window_size":-1,"copyright_notice":null,"has_multimedia_resources":false,"has_educational_resources":false,"has_advanced_imaging":false,"colorfulness":16.6349,"color":{"h":95,"l":32,"s":2,"percentage":0.0028477606781205566,"population":29},"latitude":null,"longitude":null,"latlon":null,"is_on_view":true,"on_loan_display":null,"gallery_title":"Gallery 273","gallery_id":21434,"nomisma_id":null,"artwork_type_title":"Painting","artwork_type_id":1,"department_title":"Arts of the Americas","department_id":"PC-3","artist_id":36540,"artist_title":"John Singer Sargent","alt_artist_ids":[],"artist_ids":[36540],"artist_titles":["John Singer Sargent"],"category_ids":["PC-3"],"category_titles":["Arts of the Americas"],"term_titles":["oil paint (paint)","oil on canvas","Impressionism","portraits","canvas","Realism","Chicago","fashion","Modernism","people","painting"],"style_id":"TM-7543","style_title":"Impressionism","alt_style_ids":["TM-7548","TM-5981"],"style_ids":["TM-7543","TM-7548","TM-5981"],"style_titles":["Impressionism","Realism","Modernism"],"classification_id":"TM-66","classification_title":"oil on canvas","alt_classification_ids":["TM-9"],"classification_ids":["TM-66","TM-9"],"classification_titles":["oil on canvas","painting"],"subject_id":"TM-8658","alt_subject_ids":["TM-12075","TM-8663","TM-8810"],"subject_ids":["TM-8658","TM-12075","TM-8663","TM-8810"],"subject_titles":["portraits","Chicago","fashion","people"],"material_id":"TM-2451","alt_material_ids":["TM-3124"],"material_ids":["TM-2451","TM-3124"],"material_titles":["oil paint (paint)","canvas"],"technique_id":null,"alt_technique_ids":[],"technique_ids":[],"technique_titles":[],"theme_titles":[],"image_id":"c6da9f8c-643b-f331-0f8f-a9b6a844caf6","alt_image_ids":["d755ef36-0c99-cb0c-44e2-06bba07bd8d6"],"document_ids":[],"sound_ids":[],"video_ids":[],"text_ids":[],"section_ids":[],"section_titles":[],"site_ids":[],"suggest_autocomplete_all":[{"input":["2007.391"],"contexts":{"groupings":["accession"]}},{"input":["Madame Paul Escudier (Louise Lefevre)"],"weight":10681,"contexts":{"groupings":["title"]}}],"source_updated_at":"2026-08-05T16:33:53-05:00","updated_at":"2026-08-18T23:24:37-05:00","timestamp":"2026-08-24T02:07:30-05:00"},"info":{"license_text":"The `description` field in this response is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Generic License (CC-By) and the Terms and Conditions of artic.edu. 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