Two of the central figures stand in the shadow, and one of them leans against a giant Japanese vase, while the youngest sits on a rug and clutches a doll.
Erica Hirshler wrote a "biography" of this painting tracking how two of the people depicted ending up being put into an asylum. The lighting of this painting was borrowed from the artist's earlier Venetian Studies, and was also influenced by copies the artist made of Las Meninas. Two antiques created by Hirabayashi depicted in the painting are now displayed alongside it in the MFA. Two of the central figures stand in the shadow, and one of them leans against a giant Japanese vase, while the youngest sits on a rug and clutches a doll. Finished two years before Madame X, for 10 points, name this painting depicting the siblings Florence, Jane, Mary Louisa and Julia in their family's Paris apartment, a work by John Singer Sargent.
Erica Hirshler wrote a "biography" of this painting tracking how two of the people depicted ending up being put into an asylum.
The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit