1942.55: Gardens at Florence

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1942.55

People

John Singer Sargent, American (Florence, Italy 1856 - 1925 London, England)

Title

Gardens at Florence

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

c. 1910

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/307834

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Transparent and opaque watercolor and graphite on off-white wove paper

Dimensions

36.5 × 53.5 cm (14 3/8 × 21 1/16 in.)
mat: 63.5 × 76.2 cm (25 × 30 in.)
frame: 67.6 × 80.3 × 2.9 cm (26 5/8 × 31 5/8 × 1 1/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: brown ink,: l.l.: John S. Sargent-- Florence
• inscription: verso of backing board, graphite: 889
• inscription: verso of backing board, graphite: Garden in Florence
• stamp: verso of backing board, blue ink, stamped: ROBERSON & CO / [ ]ONG ACRE / AND / [PI]CCADILLY / LONDON / [ ] COLOURMEN
• inscription: l.l. of verso, graphite: #5296

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

The artist to Scott and Fowles, New York, 1921; purchased by Grenville L. Winthrop, New York, 1922; his 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

1942.55

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• John Singer Sargent, His Own Work, exh. cat., Coe Kerr Gallery, Inc. (New York, NY, 1980), in checklist, unpaginated
• Carl Little, The Watercolors of John Singer Sargent, University of California Press (Berkeley, CA, 1998), repr. pp. 100-101 (color)
• 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. 332, cat. no. 349, 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), 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. 1645, repr., pp. 103 n. 1, 230-231, 379
• Nina MacLaughlin, "Exhibition catalog essays explore the power of watercolors", Boston Globe (Boston, June 25, 2023), repr. p. N10
• Brian T. Allen, "Harvard's Fogg Museum Comes Back to Life with a Glorious Watercolor Show", National Review (August 10, 2023), repr.
• Joachim Homann, Margaret Morgan Grasselli, and Miriam Stewart, ed., American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2023), pp. 57, 60-61, 88, repr. as fig. 3 on p. 57 [detail], as fig. 1 on p. 60 [detail], pl. 19 on p. 88
• Penley Knipe and Miriam Stewart, Material Matters (A Watercolor Treasury, Support, Reserve, Opacity, Intervention, Resist, Impermanence), American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light, ed. Joachim Homann, Margaret Morgan Grasselli, and Miriam Stewart, Yale University Press (Cambridge, MA, 2023), Pages 40-67, Figure 3, Page 57; Figure 1, Page 60

Exhibition History

• Water Colors by Sargent, Scott and Fowles, 12/01/1921 - 12/31/1921
• American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 05/20/2023 - 08/13/2023

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