1942.53: Portrait of Consuelo, Duchess of Manchester (Consuelo Yznaga)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1942.53

People

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

Title

Portrait of Consuelo, Duchess of Manchester (Consuelo Yznaga)

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

1907

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/307891

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Watercolor, white gouache, and brown ink on white wove paper

Dimensions

50.8 x 35.6 cm (20 x 14 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: brown ink, u.l.: John S. Sargent; u.r. Esher 1907
• inscription: u.r., brown ink, in artist's hand: Esher 1907
• inscription: backboard, graphite?: Consuelo, Duchess of Manchester

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

The artist's estate sale, Christie's, London, July 24, 1925, lot 33; purchased by Scott and Fowles, at that sale; purchased from them by Grenville L. Winthrop, June 1926; 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

1942.53

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Catalogue of Pictures and Water Colour Drawings by J. S. Sargent. R. A., auct. cat., Christie, Manson and Woods, Ltd. (London, England, 1925), no. 33
• David McKibbin, Sargent's Boston, exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston, MA, 1956), p. 108, 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
• Richard Ormond and Elaine Kilmurray, John Singer Sargent: The Later Portraits, Yale University Press (New Haven CT and London England, 2003), no. 540, repr. in color
• Raymond Sancroft-Baker, "Historic Jewels: Jewels Worn by Duchesses and Empresses", Christie's Magazine (May-June 2006), ill. p. 126
• 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. 326, cat. no. 344, reproduced in b&w

Exhibition History

• HAA 10 Survey Course (S421): The Western Tradition: Art Since the Renaissance (Fall 11 Rotation 1), Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, 09/06/2011 - 10/01/2011

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