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This is a painting showing two people in nature. The person on the left appears to be running towards the right, with one leg in the air and their arms outstretched. They have tan, golden-toned skin, blond hair, and golden fabric draped loosely around them, billowing backward as they run. On the right is a pale person standing upright in a tree, their arms outstretched. They appear intertwined with the tree, with their feet nestled in the light brown trunk and their head and hands covered in olive-green leaves. The background features indistinct brown shapes against a clear blue sky.
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This is a painting showing two people in nature. The person on the left appears to be running towards the right, with one leg in the air and their arms outstretched. They have tan, golden-toned skin, blond hair, and golden fabric draped loosely around them, billowing backward as they run. On the right is a pale person standing upright in a tree, their arms outstretched. They appear intertwined with the tree, with their feet nestled in the light brown trunk and their head and hands covered in olive-green leaves. The background features indistinct brown shapes against a clear blue sky.

National Gallery of Art · Painting

Apollo and Daphne

John Singer Sargent

Date
c. 1916/1919
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
overall: 82.55 × 73.34 cm (32 1/2 × 28 7/8 in.) framed: 88.27 × 78.11 × 7.62 cm (34 3/4 × 30 3/4 × 3 in.)
Classification
Painting
Accession number
2014.136.69
Credit line
Corcoran Collection (Gift of Miss Emily Sargent and Mrs. Francis Ormond, sisters of the artist, 1949)
Time span
1901 to 1925
Department
CAB
Original NGA record Wikidata

Subjects and terms

  • painted surface
  • American
  • Impressionist
  • classical
  • mythology
  • Acquired after publication of American Paintings of the Nineteenth Century, Part II [M-Z]
  • Apollo and Daphne
Provenance

The artist's sisters, Miss Emily Sargent [1857-1929] and Violet Sargent Ormond [1870-1955, Mrs. Francis Ormond]; gift 1949 to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; acquired 2014 by the National Gallery of Art.

NGA object ID 194944. Collection metadata is reproduced under CC0. This work is included because its NGA published-image record is marked open access; visitors should recheck the source record before substantial reuse.