Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose (1885-6) was the most ambitious of the paintings in an Impressionist vein that Sargent painted after moving from Paris to England. This talk will discuss how Sargent painted the ‘fearful difficult subject’ of two girls lighting lanterns at twilight, which has become one of his best-loved works.
This talk is part of the Association for Art History’s Art History Festival.