Detail View: ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART: Rosina

Collection: 
ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART
Preferred Title: 
Rosina
Image View: 
Overall view with frame
Creator: 
John Singer Sargent (American painter, 1856-1925)
Location: 
repository: Colby College Museum of Art (Waterville, Maine, United States) 2013.256
Location Note: 
5600 Mayflower Hill; Lunder Collection
GPS: 
+44.565-69.660833
Date: 
1878 (creation)
Cultural Context: 
American
Style Period: 
Nineteenth century
Work Type 1: 
painting (visual work)
Classification: 
Paintings
Material: 
oil paint on panel
Technique: 
oil painting (technique)
Measurements: 
35.56 cm (height) x 17.15 cm (width)
Subjects: 
genre; portrait
Description: 
John Singer Sargent painted Rosina during his second visit to Capri, a small island off the west coast of Italy. It is one of a series of sketches and oil paintings featuring the same model, Rosina Ferrara, a seventeen-year-old native of Capri and a model for numerous visiting American and British artists. (Source: Colby Museum of Art [website]; http://www.colby.edu/museum/)
Collection: 
Archivision Adjunct Module C: World Art
Identifier: 
7A1-SARGENT-CA-R-A02
Rights: 
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.