1943.317: Boats, Venice
Drawings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1943.317
- People
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John Singer Sargent, American (Florence, Italy 1856 - 1925 London, England)
- Title
- Boats, Venice
- Other Titles
- Alternate Title: Boats at Venice; Venice
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- c. 1908
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/307930
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Watercolor over graphite on off-white wove paper
- Dimensions
- 35.6 x 50.8 cm (14 x 20 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- Signed: brown ink, l.r.: John S. Sargent, Venice
- inscription: center of verso, graphite: (15)/ S26 x 20
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
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The artist to Scott and Fowles, New York, 1921; purchased by Grenville L. Winthrop, New York, August 15, 1922; 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
- 1943.317
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Henry McBride, "Souvenirs of a Master of Technique", New York Tribune (December 11, 1921), p. C7
- Martin Birnbaum, John Singer Sargent, January 12, 1856-April 15, 1925: A Conversation, William E. Rudge's Sons (New York, NY, 1941), p. 60, repr.
- John Singer Sargent, His Own Work, exh. cat., Coe Kerr Gallery, Inc. (New York, NY, 1980), in checklist, unpaginated
- 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. 320-322, cat. no. 340, reproduced in color, p. 321
- 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. 1114, repr., p. 243
- Richard Ormond and Elaine Kilmurray, John Singer Sargent: Figures and Landscapes, 1883-1899, Yale University Press (U.S.) (New Haven and London, 2010), pp. 282, 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), p. 103 n. 1
Exhibition History
- Water Colors by Sargent, Scott and Fowles, 12/01/1921 - 12/31/1921
Verification Level
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