John Singer Sargent American, 1856-1925
54.6 x 71.1 cm
Provenance
The artist; toEmily Sargent, 1925; to
Violet Sargent (Mrs. Francis Ormond), 1936; to
H. E. Conrad Ormond (her son), 1955;
Private collection, by descent, until the present
Exhibitions
New English Art Club, London, Summer Exhibition, 1908, no. 61 (as Villa di Papa Giulto [sic.]) // Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, Fifty-Third Autumn Exhibition, including a collective exhibit of works by the late John S. Sargent, R.A., 1925, no. 146 // Royal Academy, London, Exhibition of Works by the Late John S. Sargent, R.A., Winter Exhibition, January 14-March 13, 1926, no. 563 // National Gallery [Millbank], London, Opening of Sargent Gallery, June-October 1926, unnumbered, p. 10 // City of York Museum and Art Gallery, Loan Exhibition of Works by the Late John S. Sargent, R.A., March 31-May 8, 1926, no. 1 // Wichita Art Museum, Kansas, Paintings of the 19th and 20th Centuries from Coe Kerr Gallery, 1982, no. 44 // Adelson Galleries, New York, Sargent Abroad: An Exhibition, November 7-December 13, 1997 // Palazzo dei Diamanti, Ferrara, Italy, Sargent e l’Italia, September 22, 2002-January 6, 2003, no. 24; travelled to Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California, February 2-May 11, 2003 (as Sargent and Italy) and Denver Art Museum, Colorado, June 28-September 21, 2003
Literature
William Howe Downes, John S. Sargent, His Life and Work, Boston, 1925, p. 357 // Evan Charteris, John Sargent, London, 1927, p. 289 // Charles Merrill Mount, John Singer Sargent: A Biography, New York, 1955, p. 448 // Richard Ormond and Elaine Kilmurray, John Singer Sargent: Figures and Landscapes, 1900-1907: The Complete Paintings, Volume VII, London, 2012, pp. 222, 352, illus. no. 1351
