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John Singer Sargent, American
(1856 - 1925)
Olive Trees, Corfu, 1909
Watercolor over graphite on white wove paper
35.5 cm. x 50.8 cm., actual
Fogg Art Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop, 1943.314
Signature: black ink, l.r.: John S. Sargent, Corfu
Marks:
inscription: u.r. of verso, graphite, black ink, l.r.: John S. Sargent, Corfu: 1004
Notes:
Corfu, Greece. On a visit to the Fogg, November 3, 1965, David McKibbin suggested that the man sketching at the left is Sargent's friend and fellow artist, Wilfrid de Glehn. Wilfrid de Glehn also appears, with his wife Jane, in "Rainy Day, Corfu," a watercolor in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The Fogg watercolor is dated to 1909, when the de Glehn's were on honeymoon in Greece. 6/99: Richard Ormond agreed that this was deGlehn.
Provenance:
Scott and Fowles (Dealer)., sold to Grenville L. Winthrop Mar 2 1922.
Winthrop, Grenville L. (Owner). Purchased from Scott and Fowles Mar 2 1922, Bequest to Fogg Art Museum 1943.
Bibliography:
Martin Birnbaum, John Singer Sargent, January 12, 1856-April 15, 1925; a conversation piece (New York, NY, 1941), p. 58, repr.
John Singer Sargent, His Own Work (New York, NY, 1980), in checklist, unpaginated
Carl Little, The Watercolors of John Singer Sargent (Berkeley, CA, 1998), repr. p. 113 (color)
John Esten, Sargent: Painting Out-of-Doors (New York, NY, 2000), repr. in color, pp. 44-45
Ingres, Burne-Jones, Whistler, Renoir... La Collection Grenville L. Winthrop, exh. cat., Réunion des musées nationaux (Paris, France, 2003), no. 209, 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), cat. no. 210, repr. (color)
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: Greece / Landscapes / Portraits--Male / Winthrop Lyons/London Ship 4