The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit painted by John Singer Sargent in Paris in the autumn of 1882, is an homage to Diego Velázquez’ 1656 painting Las Meninas and a reproduction of the likeness of the daughters of Edward Darley and Mary Louisa Cushing Boit, the former a Bostonian expatriate lawyer living in Paris, the latter a socialite of old money. Arranging the Boit’s four daughters in the foyer of their luxurious Paris apartment, Sargent presents each of their girls within their own personal space and with room to establish their individuality. The family supported Sargent’s goal of creating a more unusual portrait, one that would be half portrait and interior tableau, forging a visual style that is both traditional and modern. Inspired perhaps by his contemporary, the painter Edgar Degas, Sargent employed an asymmetrical composition with a bare space in the center that Degas utilized to impart a feeling of modern life interrupted, the frame struggling only to surround the image rather than to capture it. This effect is heightened by the positioning of the girls – in an entrance hall, a space neither public nor private.

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