Mrs.
Abbott Lawrence Rotch
John
Singer
Sargent
-- American painter
1903
Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska
Oil on canvas
144.2 x 92.1 cm (56 3/4 x 36 1/4 in.)
Inscribed: (Upper right:) John S. Sargent 1903
Lent Anonymously Accession Number: JAM.5.1987
Jpg:
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Painted in 1903
when the artist was in Boston supervising a mural project for the
Boston Public Library
(Joslyn,
10/13/2008)
Three-quarter-length seated portrait of Mrs. Abbott Lawrence Rotch
(1867-1941) wearing a white and blue gown with blue stole. A base of a
pillar is behind her at left; she rests her right arm on a table
covered with patterned textile.
(SIRIS)
Note:
Provenance:
Formerly in the collection of Rotch, Abbott Lawrence, Mrs., until 1941.
Greenough, Malcolm, Mrs,
Bibliography:
Ormond, Richard and Elaine Kilmurray, "John Singer Sargent: complete
paintings; volume 3, The later portraits," New Haven, CT: Yale
University Press, 2003, no. 451.
McKibbin, David, "Sargent's Boston," Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, 1956.
Illustration:
Ormond, Richard and Elaine Kilmurray, "John Singer Sargent: complete
paintings; volume 3, The later portraits," New Haven, CT: Yale
University Press, 2003, pg. 110.
SIRIS # IAP 81690381
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