caro-lus

Updated: May 26, 2025

Sargent came up to the irresistible city in his twentieth year, from Florence, where in 1856 he had been born of American parents and where his fortunate youth had been spent. He entered immediately the studio of Caro-lus Duran, and revealed himself in 1877, at the age of twenty-two, in the portrait of that master -a fine model in more than one sense of the word.

Henry James - Picture and Text: 1893