Post by Mary Jo Gibson

🎨🖌Dr Pozzi at Home, John Singer Sargent, 1881 Dashing "Docteur Dieu", as his most famous lover, Sarah Bernhardt, called him. This famous Sargent full-length portrait of Dr Samuel Jean Pozzi who, apart from being an incorrigible womanizer, founded modern French genecology.   Pozzi, a close friend of Sargent and a renowned dandy, was described by a contemporary as “himself a kind of beautiful work of art.” Swaddled in a plush robe with crisp ruffles peeking out from the collar and sleeve, shod with embroidered slippers, and flanked by a velvet curtain, Pozzi boasts all the grandeur of a Renaissance prince. #mjsartstories #History #arthistory #HistoryofArt #museumhour #inspiration #MuseumfromHome #ArtHelps #wednesdaymorning #wednesdaythoughts #wednesdaymotivation