The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit

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The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit is an 1882 oil painting by John Singer Sargent that portrays the four young daughters of a wealthy American family in a strikingly unconventional, psychologically complex interior scene.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf oil painting
painting
alsoKnownAs Portraits d’enfants
artist John Singer Sargent
collection Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
commissionedBy Edward Darley Boit
copyrightStatus public domain
countryOfOrigin France
creator John Singer Sargent
depicts Boit family apartment in Paris
Florence Boit
Jane Boit
Julia Boit
Mary Louisa Boit
children of a wealthy American expatriate family
four daughters of Edward Darley Boit
interior scene
large Japanese vases
describedAs psychologically complex group portrait
strikingly unconventional interior portrait
exhibitedAt Salon of 1883 in Paris
genre portrait painting
hasInfluenced later psychological portraiture
hasPart checkered floor
doorway to dark interior space
four girls positioned in different areas of the room
two large Japanese Imari vases
inception 1882
inspiredBy Diego Velázquez
Las Meninas
languageOfWorkOrName English
locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity Boston, Massachusetts
surface form: Boston

Massachusetts
United States of America
location Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
locationOfCreation Paris
materialUsed oil paint
movement Impressionism
Realism
notableFor innovative use of interior space
psychological complexity
unconventional composition
partOf collection of 19th‑century American paintings at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
support canvas
title The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit self-link

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John Singer Sargent notableWork The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit
The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit title The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit self-link
John notableWork The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit
subject surface form: John Singer Sargent
Florence Boit portrayedIn The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit
Julia Boit hasPartIn The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit
Julia Boit depictedIn The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit
Julia Boit notableWork The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit
Salon of 1883 in Paris exhibitedWork The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit
Edward Darley Boit hasDepiction The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit
this entity surface form: "The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit" by John Singer Sargent
Edward Darley Boit hasNameInWork The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit
this entity surface form: "The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit"
Portraits d’enfants hasTitleInEnglish The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit
Jane Boit notableWork The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit
this entity surface form: The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit (as subject)
Jane Boit depictedIn The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit
Mary Louisa Boit notableWork The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit
Mary Louisa Boit subjectOf The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit