Maisie’s Sisters
Ruth Bernard Yeazell: Sargent’s Daughters, 5 August 2010
Sargent’s Daughters: The Biography of a Painting
by Erica Hirshler.
MFA, 262 pp., £23.95, October 2009,978 0 87846 742 6 Show More
by Erica Hirshler.
MFA, 262 pp., £23.95, October 2009,
“... the image itself, which is more likely to unsettle viewers than it is to flatter or dazzle them. Erica Hirshler is a curator at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and has often watched visitors lingering in front of the painting; on occasion, she reports, they weep. She doesn’t explicitly say so but their interest in the subjects of the painting may ... ”
