El Jaleo. Date. 1882. Medium. Oil on canvas. Dimensions. 232 x 348 cm (91 5/16 x 137 in.) Signatures, inscriptions, and markings. Signed and dated (upper right): John S. Sargent 1882. Provenance. Purchased by the Schaus Gallery, New York …

Sargent painted El Jaleo a few years before he met Isabella Stewart Gardner, but it took more than 30 years for her to secure the painting she long coveted. Tucked into a niche in the Spanish Cloister, El Jaleo is often the first painting you see in the Gardner Museum.

2017年6月25日 · Many of Sargent’s contemporaries portrayed Spanish culture, a nexus of European, African and Far Eastern influences, in an inaccurate and sometimes overtly sexual way; however, through El Jaleo, Sargent succeeded at portraying both Spanish culture and flamenco accurately [4].

El Jaleo’s precocious artist, John Singer Sargent, painted the artwork in 1882 at the young age of 26. Both the painting and its creator are evocative of the times, reflective of the nineteenth-century American fascination with, and inherent dependence upon, foreign cultures for both technical training and artistic inspiration.

He named the painting El Jaleo to suggest the name of a dance, the jaleo de jerez, while counting on the broader meaning jaleo, which means ruckus or hubbub. The painting was exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1882 with the more explicit title El Jaleo: Danse des gitanes (Dance of …

2019年6月14日 · The painting El Jaleo (1882) by John Singer Sargent made the artist’s reputation when it was first exhibited at the 1882 Paris Salon. The enormous canvas (237x352 cm) that depicts a flamenco performance became an overnight sensation with …

2020年10月29日 · El Jaleo is one of Sargent’s many paintings relating to Romani culture, and brings a vivid scene of Spanish dance, music, and fashion to the viewer.

Sargent chose a huge 12 foot by 7 foot canvas as the "stage" for his intended dancer, and called the painting El Jaleo - the Spanish name for a lively solo dance accompanied by castanets.

“El Jaleo” is an exquisite oil on canvas artwork by the renowned artist John Singer Sargent, dating back to 1882. This piece is a hallmark of the Realism art movement and is classified as a genre painting. The dimensions of the artwork are substantial, measuring 232.4 x 355.6 cm.

2023年12月26日 · El Jaleo exemplifies Hispanism, the nineteenth- and early twentieth-century European and American phenomena of a general infatuation with Spanish culture. John Singer Sargent’s picture has been cited as an illustration of his Impressionism as well as his early support for the Realist movement.