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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.313
People
John Singer Sargent, American (Florence, Italy 1856 - 1925 London, England)
Title
The Grand Canal, Venice
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1902
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/307927

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Transparent and opaque watercolor and graphite on white wove paper
Dimensions
24.8 × 35.2 cm (9 3/4 × 13 7/8 in.)
mat: 45.4 × 54.6 cm (17 7/8 × 21 1/2 in.)
frame: 49.1 × 58.3 × 2.1 cm (19 5/16 × 22 15/16 × 13/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: brown ink, l.r.: John Singer Sargent
  • label: back of frame, paper: Cette Aquarelle est la propriété de Mr. Leon Delafosse, G. Barthole le 15 Mai, 1932. G.B.
  • inscription: l.r., brown ink, signed, in artist's hand: à Léon Delafosse en toute admiration et amitié, John S. Sargent
  • inscription: verso, graphite: [encircled:] 4330

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Gift of the artist to Leon Delafosse, c 1902 (?); sold, presumably by Delafosse, at Sotheby's, London, June 14, 1939, lot 52; purchased by "Lion"; Grenville L. Winthrop, 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
1943.313
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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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
  • Susan E. Strickler, ed., American Traditions in Watercolor: The Worcester Art Museum Collection, exh. cat., Worcester Art Museum/Abbeville Press (New York, 1987), p. 126, note 4
  • Margaretta M. Lovell, A Visitable Past: Views of Venice by American Artists, 1860-1915, University of Chicago Press (Chicago, IL and London, England, 1989), pp. 65-66, fig. 75
  • Carl Little, The Watercolors of John Singer Sargent, University of California Press (Berkeley, CA, 1998), repr. in color pp. 34-35
  • Edward Katz, ed., The Asheville Reader, Pegasus Press (Asheville, NC, 1999), repr. in color on cover
  • Richard Ormond and Elaine Kilmurray, John Singer Sargent: Portraits of the 1890s, Yale University Press (New Haven, CT and London, England, 2002), p. 106, under no. 322
  • Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., American Watercolors and Pastels 1875-1950 at the Fogg Art Museum, brochure, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2006), checklist
  • 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. 320, cat. no. 339, reproduced in color, p. 321
  • Stephan Wolohojian and Alvin L. Clark, Jr., Harvard Art Museum/ Handbook, ed. Stephan Wolohojian, Harvard Art Museum (Cambridge, 2008), ill. p. 190
  • Richard Ormond and Elaine Kilmurray, John Singer Sargent: Venetian Figures and Landscapes, 1898-1913, Yale University Press (U.S.) (New Haven and London, 2009), no. 1044, repr., p. 235
  • Richard Ormond and Elaine Kilmurray, John Singer Sargent: Figures and Landscapes, 1883-1899, Yale University Press (U.S.) (New Haven and London, 2010), p. 282
  • Richard Ormond and Elaine Kilmurray, John Singer Sargent: Figures and Landscapes, 1900-1907, Yale University Press (U.S.) (New Haven and London, 2012), p. 98 (note 6)
  • Richard Ormond and Elaine Kilmurray, John Singer Sargent: Figures and Landscapes, 1908-1913, Yale University Press (U.S.) (New Haven and London, 2014), p. 103 n. 6
  • Joachim Homann, Margaret Morgan Grasselli, and Miriam Stewart, ed., American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2023), pp. 53-54, 86, repr. as fig. 2 on p. 53, pl. 17 on p. 86

Exhibition History

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