1943.156: The Honorable Laura Lister
Paintings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1943.156
- People
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John Singer Sargent, American (Florence, Italy 1856 - 1925 London, England)
- Title
- The Honorable Laura Lister
- Classification
- Paintings
- Work Type
- painting
- Date
- 1896
- Places
- Creation Place: North America, United States
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/12550
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
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168.9 x 115.3 cm (66 1/2 x 45 3/8 in.)
framed: 198.8 x 147.3 x 10.2 cm (78 1/4 x 58 x 4 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: u.r.: John S. Sargent 1896
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
- Laura Lister (later Lady Lovat), 1896; sold at American Art Association, November 16, 1933, no. 20; purchased at that sale by Grenville L. Winthrop through Scott and Fowles, New York; his bequest to the Fogg Art Museum, 1943.
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
- Accession Year
- 1943
- Object Number
- 1943.156
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Copley Society, Catalogue of Paintings and Sketches by John S. Sargent, R. A., exh. cat. (Boston, MA, 1899), p. 4, no. 13
- Alfred Lys Baldry, "The Art of J.S. Sargent, R.A., Part I", The International Studio (March 1900), X, no. 37, pp. 3-21, repr. p. 10
- [Reproduction only], "A Special Number Devoted to the Grenville Lindall Winthrop Bequest", Bulletin of the Fogg Museum of Art, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, November 1943)., repr. in b/w, p. 65
- Dorothy W. Gillerman, ed., Grenville L. Winthrop: Retrospective for a Collector, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, 1969), p. 122, cat. 88, p. 123
- Stephan Wolohojian, ed., A Private Passion: 19th-Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, Harvard University, exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale University Press (U.S.) (New York, 2003), p. 40, fig. 47
- Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., Virginia Anderson, and Kimberly Orcutt, ed., American Paintings at Harvard, Volume Two, Paintings, Drawings, Pastels and Stained Glass by Artists Born 1826-1856, Harvard Art Museums and Yale University Press (U.S.) (Cambridge, MA and New Haven, CT, 2008), p. 318-19, cat. no. 337, reproduced in color, p. 319
- Bruce Redford, John Singer Sargent and the Art of Allusion, Yale University Press (U.S.) (New Haven and London, 2016), p. 124, repr. p. 124 as fig. 83
Exhibition History
- Annual Exhibition, 1897, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 01/01/1897 - 12/31/1897
- Sargent Loan Exhibition, Copley Hall, Boston, 02/20/1899 - 03/13/1899
- The One Hundred and Twenty Ninth Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, 04/21/1928 - 08/25/1928
- In Honor of Royal Cortissoz and His Fifty Years of Criticism in the New York Herald Tribune, Knoedler & Co. Inc., New York, 12/01/1941 - 12/20/1941
Verification Level
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