Skip to main content

Under the Willows

Collections Menu
Photography by Robert LaPrelle
Under the Willows
Photography by Robert LaPrelle

Under the Willows

Artist (1856 - 1925)
Date1887
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions27 × 22 in. (68.6 × 55.9 cm)
Framed: 36 1/4 × 31 3/4 × 2 3/4 in.
ClassificationsPainting
Credit LinePromised Gift to Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas
Signedl.l: John S Sargent
On View
On view
Label TextUnder the Willows, part of Sargent’s series of paintings featuring women in boats on the Thames River, is an almost textbook example of French Impressionist subject and technique. He depicted an upper-middle-class woman at leisure from a distance that implies objective observation; built up the canvas with layers of rapidly applied, multi-directional brushstrokes; emphasized complimentary colors (primarily red and green); and above all concentrated on transitory effects of light and movement.
Sargent created Under the Willows after visiting Claude Monet during the summer of 1887.

En esta pintura, John Singer Sargent presenta una mujer de clase media alta en un rato de ocio, flotando sobre el Río Támesis. La técnica usada por Sargent, en la que aplicaba pinceladas hechas rápidamente en todas direcciones, su énfasis en colores complementarios (principalmente rojo y verde), y su enfoque en los efectos de la luz solar reflejándose sobre el agua, evocan el impresionismo francés, un nuevo estilo de pintura popular en Europa y los Estados Unidos durante la segunda mitad del Siglo XIX. De hecho, Sargent creó Bajo los sauces después de visitar al pintor Claude Monet en el verano de 1887.


Photography by Dwight Primiano
John Singer Sargent
1889
Photography by Dwight Primiano
John Singer Sargent
1901
Capri Girl on a Rooftop
John Singer Sargent
1878
Photography by Dwight Primiano
John Singer Sargent
ca. 1910
Photography by Dwight Primiano
John Singer Sargent
ca. 1879
Photography by Edward C. Robison III
Thomas Hart Benton
1934, reworked 1964
Photography by Dwight Primiano
John Henry Twachtman
ca. 1895