Boats,
Venice (Fogg Museum)
John Singer
Sargent
-- American painter
c. 1908
Fogg Art
Museum, Cambridge,
Massachusetts
Watercolor over graphite on
off-white wove paper
35.6 x 50.9 cm
Credit
Line: Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Inscription: verso,
ctr., graphite: (15)/ S26 x 20
Signature: l.r.,
brown ink: John S. Sargent, Venice
Jpg: Sargent
at Harvard
Note:
Provenance:
Scott and Fowles, Dealer, New
York
Disposed of: 1922,
August 15, Sold to Grenville L. Winthrop
(Bill of sale in drawing department file. Grenville Winthrop purchased
the watercolor for $3200 from Scott and Fowles in 1922.)
Grenville L. Winthrop, Owner,
1943, Bequest to Fogg Art Museum
Bibliography:
Birnbaum, Martin, John Singer
Sargent, William E. Rudge's Sons, NY, 1941, p. 60, repr.
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