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Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose is an oil-on-canvas painting made by the American painter John Singer Sargent in 1885–86. [1]The painting depicts two small children dressed in white who are lighting paper lanterns as day turns to evening; they are in a garden strewn with pink roses, accents of yellow carnations and tall white lilies (possibly the Japanese mountain lily, Lilium auratum) behind them.
A video discussion about Sargent's Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose Archived October 7, 2014, at the Wayback Machine from Smarthistory at Khan Academy. Artist John Singer Sargent's strong interest in framing; Works by John Singer Sargent at Project Gutenberg; Works by or about John Singer Sargent at the Internet Archive; John Singer Sargent at the ...
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Yale Centre for British Art A photograph similar to Gassed of British troops blinded by poison gas during the Battle of Estaires, 1918. The painting measures 231.0 by 611.1 centimetres (7 ft 6.9 in × 20 ft 0.6 in). The composition includes a central group of eleven soldiers depicted nearly life-size.
In 1916, Sargent sold the painting to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, writing to its director, "I suppose it is the best thing I have ever done." [17] [16] The art world's changing response to the portrait was noted by the New York Herald in its May 12, 1916, headline: "Sargent Masterpiece Rejected by Subject Now Acquired by Museum."
Barnard's daughters Dorothy and Polly served as the models for Sargent's painting Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose. [9] He would, in later years, take the Barnard girls along on his painting trips to southern Europe. In Sargent's will, drawn up in 1918, he left £5000 to Alice Barnard.
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