The
Grand Canal Venice
John Singer
Sargent -- American
painter
c. 1902
Fogg Art
Museum, Cambridge,
Massachusetts
Watercolor
over graphite
on white wove paper
24.9 x 35.3 cm
(actual)
Signature,
l.r., in brown
ink: "John
Singer Sargent: à Léon Delafosse en toute admiration et
amitié,
John S. Sargent
inscription:
verso, graphite,
brown ink, l.r.: John Singer Sargent: [encircled:] 4330
label: back of
frame, paper,
brown ink, l.r.: John Singer Sargent: Cette Aquarelle est la
propriété
de Mr. Leon Delafosse, G. Barthole le 15 Mai, 1932. G.B. [1]
Bequest of
Grenville L.
Winthrop
Jpg: Sargent
at Harvard
The Canal Grande
(Grand Canal) is
the main channel that snakes through the bulk of the islands of Venice.
It is along the Grande that the stately Plazzi (palaces) are found.
This watercolor
(Grand Canal Venice)
was a gift to Sargent's friend Leon Delafosse whom he had painted in
1899.
Leon
Delafosse
1899
Notes:
Bibliography:
John Singer
Sargent, His Own Work
(New York, NY, 1980), in checklist, unpaginated
Margaretta M.
Lovell, A Visitable
Past: Views of Venice by American Artists, 1860-1915 (Chicago IL and
London,
1989), pp. 65-66, fig. 75
Carl Little, The
Watercolors of John
Singer Sargent (Berkeley, CA, 1998), repr. pp. 34-35 (color)
Edward Katz, ed.,
The Asheville Reader
(Asheville, NC, 1999), repr. on cover (color)
Provenance:
Delafosse, Leon
(Owner)..
Winthrop, Grenville
L. (Owner).,
Bequest to Fogg Art Museum 1943.
1) Translation
of inscription
Signature, l.r., in
brown ink: "To
Leon Delafosse in all admiration and amitie[?], John S. Sargent"
The label on the
back of frame: "This
Watercolor is the property of Mr. Leon Delafosse, G. Barthole the 15
May,
1932. G.b."
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