The Met Museum’s popular ‘Sargent and Paris’ exhibition featuring 19th century American expat painter John Singer Sargent’s exquisite paintings of Europe’s social elite has closed, but the Sargent family continues to be a focus of attention in a small show in the American galleries featuring Sargent’s younger sister, Emily Sargent. The two were close and traveled and painted together, producing this pair of watercolors possibly made while in Cairo and included in the family heirs’ recent gift of 26 pieces by Emily Sargent. While Emily carefully delineates the market architecture, John’s more fluid approach evokes an almost spectral ambiance. (On view on the Upper East Side through March 8th, 2026).
