Capri Girl on a Rooftop (1878) by John Singer Sargent Style:Black frame A celebration of tenderness

A celebration of tenderness

she feels less like a portrait than a season holding its breath

with a little side-eye for anyone who thinks it’s “just” glamour

In her purple wig and cyan eye make-up she is a force to be reckoned with

and the erotic charge of near naked dancer

Capri Girl on a Rooftop (1878) by John Singer Sargent Style:Black frame A celebration of tendernessJohn Singer Sargents Capri Girl on a Rooftop (1878) catches Capri at golden hour: whitewashed architecture, distant hills and a young woman dancing the tarantella to a tambourine. Crystal Bridges records the work as oil on canvas, painted when Sargent was just 22. The dancer is widely identified as Rosina Ferrara, his Capri muse, whose presence turns the scene from travel study into performance, flirtation and local legend. Read beside Sargents later