The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit

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oil painting painting

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.

Statements (45)

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 → 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 →

Referenced by (2)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
John Singer Sargent →	notableWork
The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit →	title