Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose

Name: Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose
Summary: The children lighting lanterns are Dolly (left) and Polly (right) Barnard. Their father, illustrator Frederick Barnard, was friends with Sargent. It was painted in a garden in Broadway, a village in south west England where Sargent stayed in the summer of 1885. Sargent wanted to paint from real life. There were only a few minutes each evening where the light was right. He would place his easel and paints, pose the models beforehand, and wait for the right moment to start. As summer ended and the flowers died, he replaced them with pot plants. (Source: TATE Museum Collection database)
Artist: John Singer Sargent
Date: circa 1885
Topic: Gardens; Lanterns; Sisters; Impressionism (Art)--United States; Carnations; Lilies; Roses
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 1740 × 1537 mm
place of creation: Worcestershire
location of: Tate; London
Provenance: Presented by the Trustees of the Chantrey Bequest 1887
Identifier: N01615
Source: TATE Museum Collection. Item: N01615
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