Tyrolese Interior 1915

John Singer Sargent made this painting, Tyrolese Interior, with oil on canvas. Imagine Sargent, in that dusky room, capturing the glow of the afternoon light as it hits the table. I love how Sargent uses the browns and yellows and whites to create a feeling of warmth, of being inside while the world outside is getting colder. The light almost has a texture, doesn’t it? A feeling of substance. And he’s used these dark tones to really set it off; the kind of painting you can almost smell. I wonder what it was like for him in that room? It’s intimate, right? I wonder if the family spoke to him or just carried on. Sargent was a painter in the world, travelling and looking; maybe like me, figuring things out, learning as he went.