Lecture

Portraiture as Performance: John Singer Sargent's Mrs. Carl Meyer and her Children

Talk

Tuesday, January 31, 2017
11:30 am – 12:30 pm
Scheuer Auditorium

Lucy H. Partman, Curatorial Assistant and Princeton PhD student, considers Sargent’s masterwork through the lens of performance and situates the portrait in the context of Sargent’s and the Meyer family’s shared passion for music and theater. 

Tickets: Free with Museum Admission, RSVP Recommended

John Singer Sargent, Mrs. Carl Meyer and her Children, 1896. Oil on canvas. Tate: Bequeathed by Adèle, Lady Meyer 1930, with a life interest for her son and grandson and presented in 2005 in celebration of the lives of Sir Anthony and Lady Barbadee Meyer, accessioned 2009