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In the spring of 2010, the Prado will be exhibiting the portrait The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit by John Singer Sargent (1856-1925), on loan from the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston (Massachusetts, USA). The painting will be exhibited at the Museum as part of its programme 鈥淭he Invited Work鈥�, whose aim is to present to the public paintings from other collections that, for various reasons, establish relationships and points of comparison with works in the Museum鈥檚 own collection. On this occasion, the comparison will be with Las Meninas by Diego Vel谩zquez, a work that directly inspired Sargent, who was one of the leading portraitists of his day.
 
Sargent painted The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit in 1882, commissioned by Edward Darley Boit, an American collector and friend of the artist. Sargent admired the work of Vel谩zquez, which he studied and knew well, producing various copies on the basis of a trip to Spain that he made in 1879. In the present portrait, which is one of his masterpieces, Sargent reveals the influence of Vel谩zquez in the treatment of the light and atmosphere, which are the starting points for a work of mysterious naturalism and intense but restrained expressivity.