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Olives in Corfu
John Singer Sargent -- American painter 
1912 
Fitzwilliam Museum at the University of Cambridge
Oil on canvas
56.5 x 71.7 cm 
Jpg: Fitzwilliam Museum
 
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Provenance 
The Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum  1922   ( Filtered for: Paintings, Drawings and Prints collection)  Bt. from the artist, 1922 
 

Inscriptions/Marks 

1. signature    Position: lower left    
Content: John S. Sargent
 
 2. date    Position: lower left    
Content: Corfu 1912
 
 3. label    Position: verso    
Content: R.A., 1926
 
Documentation  

1. (1922) Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Annual Report for 1922, Cambridge
[comments: reproduced]  
 2. Catalogue: (1929) The Principal Pictures in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (1929), London [page: 190] 
[comments: reproduced]  
 3. Goodison, J.W. (1977) Catalogue of Paintings in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, Vol. III, British School, Cambridge [page: 214-215] 
[comments: pl. 49]  
 4. Exhibition Catalogue: (1992) British Landscape Paintings from the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, Tokyo [page: 122-123] 
[comments: cat. no. 53, reproduced (colour)]  

Accession Number 1067  
 
 

 
 

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