Object Information
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John Singer Sargent, American
(1856 - 1925)
Artist in the Simplon, c. 1910 - 1911
Watercolor over graphite on white wove paper
40.5 cm x 53.2 cm, actual
Fogg Art Museum, Gift of Grenville L. Winthrop, Class of 1886, 1942.54
Signature: black ink, l.l.: John S. Sargent--Simplon
Marks:
inscription: verso, graphite, black ink, l.l.: John S. Sargent--Simplon: (4)
inscription: verso, blue crayon/pencil, black ink, l.l.: John S. Sargent--Simplon: 1055 [underlined]
Notes:
Examined framed. David McKibbin notes that the man shown here is Jean-François Raffaële. See Fogg sketchbook 1937.7.22, where Sargent has written Raffaële's name and address. 6/99: Richard Ormond agrees that this is Raffaële.
Provenance:
Scott and Fowles (Dealer)., sold to Grenville L. Winthrop Aug 15 1922.
Winthrop, Grenville L. (Owner). Purchased from Scott and Fowles Aug 15 1922, Gift to Fogg Art Museum 1942.
Bibliography:
David McKibbin, Sargent's Boston, exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, MA, 1956), p. 118, Check List of Sargent's Portraits
John Singer Sargent, His Own Work (New York, NY, 1980), in checklist, unpaginated
Warren Adelson, Sargent Abroad: Figures and Landscapes (New York, NY, 1997), pp. 32, 48, repr. in color as fig. 19
Carl Little, The Watercolors of John Singer Sargent (Berkeley, CA, 1998), repr. p. 74 (color)
Stephanie Herdrich and H. Barbara Weinberg, American Drawings and Watercolors in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: John Singer Sargent (New York, NY, 2000), p. 274, fig. 105, repr.
John Esten, Sargent: Painting Out-of-Doors (New York, NY, 2000), repr. in color p. 69
Richard Ormond and Elaine Kilmurray, John Singer Sargent: The Later Portraits (New Haven CT and London England, 2003), under no. 563
Ingres, Burne-Jones, Whistler, Renoir... La Collection Grenville L. Winthrop, exh. cat., Réunion des musées nationaux (Paris, France, 2003), no. 211, repr.
Stephan Wolohojian, ed., A Private Passion: 19th-Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, Harvard University, exh. cat., Metropolitan Museum of Art / Yale University Press (New York, NY, 2003), no. 211, repr.
Vincent Pomarède, "La Collection Winthrop: A la recherche de la beauté pure", L'Estampille/L'Objet d'art, p. 44
Exhibition History:
A Private Passion: 19th-Century Paintings and Drawings..., Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lyon, Lyon, 03/15/2003 - 05/26/2003; National Gallery, London, London, 06/25/2003 - 09/14/2003; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 10/23/2003 - 01/25/2004
Keywords: Landscapes / Switzerland / Winthrop Lyons/London Ship 3