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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1942.187
People
John Singer Sargent, American (Florence, Italy 1856 - 1925 London, England)
Title
Courtyard of the Scuola Grande di San Giovanni Evangelista, Venice, Italy.
Other Titles
Former Title: San Giovanni Evangelista
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1913
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/311170

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
56.2 x 71.8 cm (22 1/8 x 28 1/4 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.l.: John S. Sargent; l.r.: 1913

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
R. Langton Douglas, 1920; Daniel Farr, Philadelphia, by April 1923; Macbeth Galleries, new York, 1929; Grenville L. Winthrop, New York; his gift to 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
1942.187
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • William Howe Downes, John S. Sargent, His Life and Work, Little, Brown & Company (Boston, MA, 1925), p. 262
  • Evan Charteris, John Sargent, Charles Scribner's Sons (New York, NY, 1927), p. 292
  • Charles Merrill Mount, John Singer Sargent: A Biography, W. W. Norton & Company (New York, NY, 1955), K134, p. 451
  • John Singer Sargent, His Own Work, exh. cat., Coe Kerr Gallery, Inc. (New York, NY, 1980), in checklist, unpaginated
  • Warren Adelson, Sargent Abroad: Figures and Landscapes, Abbeville Press (New York, NY, 1997), repr. in color p. 209, fig. 218
  • Warren Adelson, William H. Gerdts, and Elaine Kilmurray, Sargent's Venice, Yale University Press (U.S.) (New Haven and London, 2006), pp. 121, 124
  • 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. 336, cat. no. 353, reproduced in b&w
  • Richard Ormond and Elaine Kilmurray, John Singer Sargent: Venetian Figures and Landscapes, 1898-1913, Yale University Press (U.S.) (New Haven and London, 2009), pp. 212-213, 250 as no. 1155. repr. in color p. 213.
  • 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

Exhibition History

  • For Students of Art and Lovers of Beauty: Highlights from the Collection of Grenville L. Winthrop, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/16/2004

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