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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1942.54
People
John Singer Sargent, American (Florence, Italy 1856 - 1925 London, England)
Title
Artist in the Simplon
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Simplon
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1909-1911
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/307833

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Watercolor over graphite on white wove paper
Dimensions
40.5 x 53.2 cm (15 15/16 x 20 15/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: black ink, l.l.: John S. Sargent--Simplon
  • inscription: verso, graphite: (4)
  • inscription: verso, blue crayon/pencil: 1055 [underlined]

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
John Singer Sargent, sold; to [Scott and Fowles, New York, 1922], sold; to Grenville L. Winthrop, New York, August 15, 1922, gift; to the Fogg Art Museum, 1942

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Grenville L. Winthrop, Class of 1886
Accession Year
1942
Object Number
1942.54
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • David McKibbin, Sargent's Boston, exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston, MA, 1956), p. 118, Check List of Sargent's Portraits
  • John Singer Sargent, His Own Work, exh. cat., Coe Kerr Gallery, Inc. (New York, NY, 1980), in checklist, unpaginated
  • Warren Adelson, Sargent Abroad: Figures and Landscapes, Abbeville Press (New York, NY, 1997), pp. 32, 48, repr. in color as fig. 19
  • Carl Little, The Watercolors of John Singer Sargent, University of California Press (Berkeley, CA, 1998), repr. p. 74 (color)
  • Stephanie Herdrich and Helen Barbara Weinberg, American Drawings and Watercolors in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: John Singer Sargent, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, NY, 2000), p. 274, fig. 105, repr.
  • John Esten, Sargent: Painting Out-of-Doors, Universe Press (New York, NY, 2000), repr. in color p. 69
  • Vincent Pomarède, "La Collection Winthrop: A la recherche de la beauté pure", L'Estampille/L'Objet d'art (April 2003), no. 379, pp. 34-45, p. 44
  • 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), pp. 464-65, cat. 211, ill.
  • Stephan Wolohojian, Ingres, Burne-Jones, Whistler, Renoir... La Collection Grenville L. Winthrop, exh. cat., Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon and Réunion des Musées Nationaux (Paris, France, 2003), pp. 480-81, cat. 211, ill.
  • Richard Ormond and Elaine Kilmurray, John Singer Sargent: The Later Portraits, Yale University Press (New Haven CT and London England, 2003), under no. 563
  • 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. 333, cat. no. 350, reproduced in color
  • Richard Ormond and Elaine Kilmurray, John Singer Sargent: Figures and Landscapes, 1883-1899, Yale University Press (U.S.) (New Haven and London, 2010), p. 283 notes 1 and 2
  • Richard Ormond and Elaine Kilmurray, John Singer Sargent: Figures and Landscapes, 1900-1907, Yale University Press (U.S.) (New Haven and London, 2012), pp. 97, 98 (notes 1 and 2), 101 (note 2), 233
  • Richard Ormond and Elaine Kilmurray, John Singer Sargent: Figures and Landscapes, 1908-1913, Yale University Press (U.S.) (New Haven and London, 2014), no. 1575, repr., pp. 103 n. 1, 170, 370
  • Joachim Homann, Margaret Morgan Grasselli, and Miriam Stewart, ed., American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2023), pp. 22, 28-29, repr. on p. 22 [detail], as fig. 4 on p. 28

Exhibition History

  • Water Colors by Sargent, Scott and Fowles, 12/01/1921 - 12/31/1921
  • A Private Passion: 19th-Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, Harvard University, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, Lyon, 03/15/2003 - 05/26/2003; National Gallery, London, 06/25/2003 - 09/14/2003; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 10/23/2003 - 01/25/2004
  • 32Q: 2700 Impressionism, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/13/2019 - 12/16/2020

Verification Level

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