Monday 31 March 2014

John Singer Sargent - part 14

1925c John Singer Sargent sketching, by Benjamin F. Curtis
Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution

John Singer Sargent (1866 - 1925) was an American artist, considered the "leading portrait painter of his generation" for his evocation of Edwardian era luxury. During his career he created approximately 900 oil paintings and more than 2000 watercolours, as well as countless sketches and charcoal drawings. His oeuvre documents worldwide travel, from Venice to the Tyrol, Corfu, the Middle East, Montana, Maine and Florida, amongst others.

For full biographical notes see part 1. For earlier works see parts 1 - 13 also.


This is part 14 of a 23-part post on the works of John Singer Sargent:




1904 A Male Model, Seated: Red Cushion Background 
oil on canvas 53.3 x 43.2 cm 
Private Collection

1904c A Male Model Reclining on the Ground 
oil on canvas 40.6 x 50.8 cm 
Private Collection

1904c A Male Model Resting 
oil on canvas 55.9 x 71.1 cm 
Private Collection

1904c Figure Study 
graphite and watercolour on paper 48.3 x 55.3 cm 
National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, UK

1904c Italian Model 
graphite and watercolour on paper 37.8 x 56.2 cm 
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1904c Man with Red Drapery 
graphite and watercolour on paper 36.5 x 53.7 cm 
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1904 General Charles J. Paine 
oil on canvas 86.7 x 72.7 cm
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

1904 In a Hayloft
The two figures nestled in a half-lit hayloft are the Italian painters Ambrogio Raffele and Carlo Pollonera, whose camarderie Sargent enjoyed during the summer painting stoints in Purtud, in 1904 and 1905.

1904 In a Hayloft 
watercolour on wove paper 40.6 x 30.5 cm 
Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York 

1904 Lady Helen Vincent, Viscountess d'Abernon 
oil on canvas 158.8 x 108 cm 
Birmingham Museum of Art, AL

1904 Millicent, Duchess of Sutherland 
oil on canvas 254 x 146 cm 
© Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid

1904 Mrs. Hugh Smith 
oil on canvas 104.2 x 81.2 cm
 Private Collection

1904 Sir Frank Swettenham 
oil on canvas 170.8 x 110.5 cm 
© National Portrait Gallery, London

1904 Sir Frank Swettenham 
oil on canvas 259 x 143 cm 
Singapore History Museum

1904 The Countess of Lathom 
oil on canvas 229.2 x 171.5 cm 
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA

1904-05 Manuel Garcia 
oil on canvas 138.1 x 96.5 cm 
Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art, Providence, RI

1904-05 The Marlborough Family 
oil on canvas 287 x 238.7 cm 
Private Collection

1904-05c Group ( aka Siesta in a Swiss Wood or The Sleepers ) 
graphite and watercolour on paper 34.9 x 50.2 cm 
Private Collection

1904-06c A Tramp 
watercolour on paper 50.8 x 35.6 cm 
Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York

1904-06c Padre Sebastiano 
oil 56.5 x 71.1 cm 
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1904-06c White Mule 
graphite and watercolour on paper 34.3 x 24.1 cm 
Private Collection


1904-07c A Man Reading 
oil on canvas 63.5 x 55.9 cm 
Reading Public Museum, Reading, PA

1904-11c Ambrogio Raffele 
graphite and watercolour on paper 50.8 x 35.6 cm 
Private Collection


1904 Palazzo Grimani ( aka Base of a Palace ) 
watercolour on paper 35.6 x 53.3 cm

1904 Santa Maria della Salute 
graphite and watercolour on wove paper 46.2 x 58.3 cm 
Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York

1904 Unloading Boats in Venice 
watercolour on paper 25.4 x 35.3 cm 
Private Collection

1904-07c Boats, Venice 
graphite, watercolour and gouache on paper 35.6 x 50.8 cm 
Fogg Museum of Art, University of Harvard, Cambridge, MA

1904-07c Palazzo Corner Contarini dai Cavalli 
graphite and watercolour on paper 53.3 x 36.8 cm 
Private Collection

1904-07c The Salute, Venice 
graphite and watercolour on paper 55.9 x 35.6 cm 
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT

1904-08 Santa Maria della Salute, Venice 
oil on canvas 64 x 92.2 cm 
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK

1904-09c Santa Maria della Salute, Venice 
graphite and watercolour on paper 45.7 x 30.5 cm 
Victoria and Albert Museum, London

1904-09c Shipping off Venice 
graphite and watercolour on paper 37.5 x 52.1 cm 
Private Collection

1904-09c The Church of Santa Maria della Salute, Venice 
graphite and watercolour on paper 36.8 x 53.3 cm 
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon

1904-09c The Giudecca, Venice 
graphite and watercolour on paper 34.9 x 52.1 cm 
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA


1904c A Small Canal, Venice 
watercolour on paper 29.2 x 44.5 cm 
Private Collection

1904c Base of a Palace 
watercolour on paper 36.2 x 50.8 cm 
Private Collection

1904c Riva Degli Schiavoni, Venice 
watercolour on paper 25.4 x 35.6 cm 
Tate, London

1904c Scuola Grande di San Rocco 
graphite and watercolour on paper 35.6 x 50.8 cm 
Private Collection

1904c Scuola Grande di San Rocco 
graphite and watercolour on paper 36.8 x 52.7 cm 
Private Collection

1904c Sketching on the Giudecca 
watercolour on paper 35.6 x 52.7 cm 
National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, UK

1904c The Piazzetta, Venice 
graphite and watercolour on paper 34.3 x 53.7 cm 
Tate, London

1904c Venetian Fishing Boats 
graphite and watercolour on paper 48.9 x 34.9 cm 
Tate, London

1904c Venice 
graphite and watercolour on paper 25.4 x 35.6 cm 
Worcester Art Museum, MA

1905 Gondoliers' Siesta 
watercolour on paper 35.6 x 50.8 cm 
Collection of Margaret and Raymond Horowitz


1904c An Artist in His Studio 
oil on canvas 56.2 x 72.1 cm 
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

1904c Tiepolo Ceiling, Milan 
watercolour on paper 35.6 x 25.4 cm 
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1905 Blue Gentians 
watercolour on paper 24.1 x 35.6 cm 
Private Collection


1904 In the Tyrol 
watercolour on paper 33.5 x 53 cm

1904 Purtud, Bed of a Glacier Torrent 
graphite and watercolour on paper 34.3 x 48.6 cm 
Royal Watercolour Society, London

1904-07c Mountain Stream 
watercolour on paper 34.3 x 71.7 cm 
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1904-08c Purtud, Alpine Scene and Boulders 
watercolour on paper 31.7 x 48.3 cm 
Private Collection

1904-11c Rushing Brook 
graphite, watercolour and gouache on wove paper 46.8 x 31.4 cm 
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1906-08c Brook among Rocks 
graphite and watercolour on paper 35.6 x 51 cm 
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

1907 Alpine Pool 
oil on canvas 69.9 x 96.5 cm 
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1907-08c Val d'Aosta ( A Stream over Rocks: Stream in Val d'Aosta ) 
oil on canvas 54.9 x 69.9 cm 
Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York

1907c A Mountain Stream 
graphite, watercolour and gouache on paper 36.8 x 44.5 cm 
Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME

1907c Bed of the Dora, Purtud 
watercolour on paper 36.8 x 53 cm 
Private Collection

1907c Brook and Meadow 
graphite, watercolour and gouache on paper 35.6 x 50.8 cm 
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1907c Stream over Rocks 
graphite, watercolour and gouache on paper 25.4 x 35.6 cm 
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1907c Stream with Rocks 
graphite, watercolour and gouache on paper 24.2 x 34.3 cm 
Private Collection

1907c Stream, Purtud 
watercolour and gouache on paper 25.4 x 35.3 cm 
Private Collection

1907c Sunlit Stream, Purtud 
watercolour and gouache on paper 25.4 x 35.6 cm
 Private Collection

1907c The Brook
 graphite, watercolour and gouache on paper 41.9 x 35.6 cm 
Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, MI

1907c Torrent in the Val d'Aosta 
watercolour on paper 34.9 x 53.3 cm 
British Museum, London

1907c Val d'Aosta, Purtud 
graphite, watercolour and gouache on paper 35.6 x 50.8 cm 
Private Collection

1907c Val d'Aosta: Stepping Stones 
oil on canvas 56.5 x 71.7 cm 
Private Collection