Harvard Art Museums > 1943.313: The Grand Canal, Venice Drawings Collections Search Exit Deep Zoom Mode Zoom Out Zoom In Reset Zoom Full Screen Add to Collection Order Image Copy Link Copy Citation Citation"The Grand Canal, Venice (John Singer Sargent) , 1943.313,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Oct 29, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/307927. Reuse via IIIF Toggle Deep Zoom Mode Download This object does not yet have a description. 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 Permissions THIS WORK MAY NOT BE LENT BY THE TERMS OF ITS ACQUISITION TO THE HARVARD ART MUSEUMS. The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request. 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 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 2, Page 53 Exhibition History American Watercolors and Pastels, 1875-1950, at the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/08/2006 - 06/25/2006 American Watercolors, 1880–1990: Into the Light, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 05/20/2023 - 08/13/2023 Verification Level This record has been reviewed by the curatorial staff but may be incomplete. Our records are frequently revised and enhanced. For more information please contact the Division of European and American Art at am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
