El Jaleo Candle Hosting • Misty Copeland

• Misty Copeland

With their timeless Florentine design

and sandalwood

Made of aged bronze

from a poet both “tender and unflinching” (Khadijah Queen)

El Jaleo Candle Hosting • Misty CopelandDuring his travels in Spain in 1879, John Singer Sargent was mulling over a major work of art in which he could express his love of Gypsy music, dance, and picturesque costumes. On his return to Paris he set to work on a wide horizontal picture whose proportions simulated the shallow stage space of popular musical establishments. He named the painting El Jaleo to suggest the name of a dance, the jaleo de jerez, while counting on the broader meaning