Saint Bartholomew’s

Lucy Jane Salter

1959

  • Titles Saint Bartholomew's (Title)
  • Artist Lucy Jane Salter, American, 1896 - 1972
  • Medium woodcut
  • Dimensions sheet: 11 3/4 × 8 5/8 in. (29.8 × 21.9 cm) image: 8 × 6 in. (20.3 × 15.2 cm) mat: 20 × 16 in. (50.8 × 40.6 cm)
  • Credit Line Gift of Mrs. Robert K. Martin, 1970.8
  • Work Type print
  • Classification Prints

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Copy after the painting "The Regentesses of the Old Men's Almshouse Haarlem" by the Dutch artist Frans Hals the Elder (about 1582–1666) painted about 1664 and now in the collection of the Frans Hals Museum in Haarlem, The Netherlands. The original canvas, measuring 67 1/8 x 98 1/4 x 4 1/2 inches, depicts the four regentesses--or female adminstrators--positioned around a small table (three sitting, one standing), with a fifth figure, their servant, standing at far right. Sargent's copy is a detail fo the far right of the original canvas, depicting just one of the regentesses (seated) and the servant (standing) dresses in traditional 17th-century Dutch attire. The seated figure wears a black dress, wide white collar, white cuffs, drop earrings, and a black skullcap. The standing woman wears a black dress with a wide white collar and white cap.
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