Life Study (Study of an Egyptian Girl)
John Singer Sargent (American, 1856–1925)
- Date
- 1891
- Origin
- Egypt
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 190.5 × 61 cm (75 × 24 in.)
- Credit
- Anonymous loan
Sargent traveled to Egypt in 1891 in search of source material for a mural commission for the Boston Public Library. Like many 19th-century Western European artists, he was drawn to the Middle East’s perceived exoticism and its ancient histories. The identity of the woman who posed in Cairo for this full-length figure study is not known. <em>Life Study</em> was widely exhibited, including at the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893.
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