Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
ADJUNCT MODULE C: WORLD ART
Preferred Title:
Rosina
Image View:
Overall view without 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-A01
Rights:
© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.

Rosina