Pailleron Children, (painting).

Pailleron Children, (painting).

Sargent, John Singer, 1856-1925, painter.

Pailleron Children, (painting).

Digital Reference:

60 x 69 (152.4 x 175.3 cm)

(Upper right:) John S. Sargent signed

Group portrait of Edouard Pailleron (b. 1865) and Marie-Louise Pailleron (1870-1950). Marie-Louise is seated facing forward, with her hands on the bench at either side of her. She wears a white dress. Edouard is seated at the left, with his legs behind the bench, his body turned toward his sister, and his head turned toward the viewer. One hand is on his leg, the other on the bench. He wears a dark suit with a bow tie.

Portrait group -- Family -- Siblings

Portrait male -- Pailleron, Edouard -- Child

Portrait male -- Pailleron, Edouard -- Knee length

Portrait female -- Bourget, Jacques, Mrs. (Marie-Louise Pailleron) -- Child

Portrait female -- Bourget, Jacques, Mrs. (Marie-Louise Pailleron) -- Full length

Des Moines Art Center, 4700 Grand Avenue, Des Moines, Iowa 50312 Accession Number: 1976.61

Formerly in the collection of Pailleron, Robert Bourget, M., Paris, France

Paris Salon of 1881, Paris, 1881, no. 2109.

Exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1881 as "Portraits de M.E.P. et de Mlle L.P."

Ormond, Richard and Elaine Kilmurray, "John Singer Sargent: complete paintings; volume 1, The early portraits," New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1998, no. 37.

Huntington, David C., "The quest for unity: American art between the world's fairs, 1876-1893," Detroit, Mich.: Detroit Institute of Arts, 1983, no. 59.

Ratcliff, Carter, "John Singer Sargent," New York: Abbeville Press, 1982, pg. 58.

Ormond, Richard, "John Singer Sargent: paintings, drawings, watercolors," New York: Harper & Row, 1970.

McKibbin, David, "Sargent's Boston," Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1956.

Sweet, Frederick A., "Sargent, Whistler, and Mary Cassatt," (a catalogue of the exhibition The Art Institute of Chicago, Jan. 14 through Feb. 25, 1954 and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, March 25 through May 23, 1954), Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1954, no. 45.

Ormond, Richard and Elaine Kilmurray, "John Singer Sargent: complete paintings; volume 1, The early portraits," New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1998, pg. 52.

Huntington, David C., "The quest for unity: American art between the world's fairs, 1876-1893," Detroit, Mich.: Detroit Institute of Arts, 1983, pg.130.

Ratcliff, Carter, "John Singer Sargent," New York: Abbeville Press, 1982, pl. 81.

Ormond, Richard, "John Singer Sargent: paintings, drawings, watercolors," New York: Harper & Row, 1970, pl. 19.

Sweet, Frederick A., "Sargent, Whistler, and Mary Cassatt,"Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1954, pg. 48.

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