Shown from the knees up, an older, pale-skinned man stands with his body angled to our right as he looks at us from the corners of his eyes in this vertical portrait painting. His short fringe of hair around a balding head and his bushy moustache are steel gray, and he gazes at us with brown eyes under thick brows. A long, hooked nose and small red mouth are set in his jowl-lined face. He wears a long, fern-green coat with a matching vest trimmed in gold over a white shirt. A polka-dotted, pine-green cravat is tied around the standing collar and held in place with a gold pin. Two…
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Peter A. B. Widener

John Singer Sargent (American, 1856 - 1925)

1902

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 148.9 x 98.4 cm (58 5/8 x 38 3/4 in.) ; framed: 181.9 x 131.1 cm (71 5/8 x 51 5/8 in.)
Culture
American
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CAB
Credit line
Widener Collection
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
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