Nonchaloir (Repose), 1911 by John Singer Sargent
Canvas Print - 1773-SAR
Location: National Gallery of Art, Washington, USAOriginal Size: 63.8 x 76.2 cm
Giclée Canvas Print | $69.03 USD
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Painting Information
Sargent's brushwork tells us everything we need to know about "Nonchaloir." The way he manipulates paint - those fluid, almost reckless strokes that somehow coalesce into that lustrous silk blanket - reveals an artist liberated from the constraints of formal portraiture. By 1911, Sargent had grown thoroughly exasperated with the demands of society commissions and their vain sitters. Here, painting his niece Rose-Marie Ormond, he's free to explore what really interests him: the sensual possibilities of paint itself. The fabric cascading across her lap is less a faithful reproduction of silk than an excuse for Sargent to indulge in paint's capacity to catch light, to shimmer, to transform.
The composition seems casual but is ruthlessly considered. The horizontal plane of the sofa grounds everything, while the woman's body creates a subtle diagonal leading our eye upward to her face. Notice how Sargent positions her slightly off-center, creating breathing room that makes us feel like privileged observers of a private moment. The cropped gilded furniture at the left hints at opulence without overwhelming. We're seeing the twilight of privilege rendered by one who knew it intimately - these are the dying embers of Edwardian luxury before the catastrophe of the Great War would sweep it all away.
What we're looking at is a young woman wrapped in cream-colored fabric, reclining on a pale sofa, her head tilted back in perfect abandonment. Her eyes appear closed, her dark hair loose against the upholstery. A voluminous silk dress or perhaps a blanket of silvery blue-gray pools across her lap and spills toward the floor. The room suggests wealth without ostentation - the glimpse of gilded furniture, the rich brown floor, the decorative molding. Yet everything is rendered with suspicious restraint for an artist who once reveled in the swagger portraits of the nouveau riche.
The colors work in concert to create an atmosphere of privileged languor. The dominant palette - creams, silvery blues, and cool grays - speaks of refinement while allowing for Sargent's technical flourishes in the treatment of different surfaces. The deep brown floor and the sitter's dark hair provide counterpoints that prevent the composition from floating away entirely into ethereal lightness. Most fascinating is how Sargent treats the blue-gray silk, rendering its surface with an alchemy of silver, cream, blue, and even hints of pink that somehow captures its essential nature without painstaking detail.
"Nonchaloir" represents Sargent at his most personally revealing. The very title - suggesting casual indifference or nonchalance - might be read as the artist's statement about his own relationship to the society that had made him famous. By abandoning formal portraiture to "experiment with more imaginary fields," Sargent was declaring his independence from the world his paintings had helped to define. In this quietly revolutionary canvas, we see not just a woman at repose, but an artist finally painting on his own terms, documenting the end of an era even as he breaks free from it. The elegiac calm of the scene seems to acknowledge that such moments of perfect tranquility belong to a world already vanishing - a world about to be shattered by social and political upheaval.