Sargent consolidated many on the spot studies of workers into this depiction of the grueling labor conducted without modern technology at the historic italian quarries.
Marble quarries at carrara john singer sargent.
Presented by lord duveen 1920.
John singer sargent s watercolors of the marble quarries in carrara posted on october 17 2013 by artis the path to lunch has led many a great artists to the apuan alps and the marble quarries of carrara from the ancient romans to michelangelo and from henry moore in the 60s to those master sculptors working in stone today in carrara.
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John singer sargent american florence 1856 1925 london date.
Learn more about bringing down marble from the quarries in carrara sargent oil artwork painted by one of the most celebrated masters in the history of art.
He suggests scale within the massive landscape in his placement of the workers at opposite ends of the ropes stretched diagonally across the composition used to lower.
Bringing down marble from the quarries in carrara was created in 1911 by john singer sargent in impressionism style.
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The artist had painted oxen in 1907 1910 and 1911 but this watercolour is most likely to be contemporaneous with three paintings of marble quarries at carrara which charteris dates to 1913 1927 p 292.
Bringing down marble from the quarries to carrara.
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The painting depicts the major effort and gruelling labor involved in the manual quarrying of marble at the carrara quarries in tuscany north italy the scale of which is suggested by the difference in size of the men working at the.
Sargent consolidated many on the spot studies of workers into this depiction of the grueling labor conducted without modern technology at the historic italian qua.
Harris brisbane dick fund 1917.
28 1 8 x 36 1 8 in.
Watercolour 15 3 4 20 3 4 40 53.
71 4 x 91 8 cm classification.
Bringing down marble from the quarries to carrara is a 1911 painting by john singer sargent which is part of the collection of the metropolitan museum of art.