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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1937.7.27.1.A
People
Unidentified Artist
Previously attributed to John Singer Sargent, American (Florence, Italy 1856 - 1925 London, England)
Title
Photograph of Sargent Painting "Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose" at Broadway in Worcestershire
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
album page, photograph
Date
1885 - 1886
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/198225

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Gelatin silver print on paper
Technique
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
11.2 x 9.4 cm (4 7/16 x 3 11/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
To the artist's sisters, Violet (Mrs. Francis) Ormond and Emily Sargent, at his death, 1925; gift of Mrs. Ormond to the Fogg Art Museum, 1937.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Mrs. Francis Ormond
Accession Year
1937
Object Number
1937.7.27.1.A
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Stanley Olson, John Singer Sargent: His Portrait, St. Martin's Press (New York, NY, 1986), plate XV
  • Warren Adelson and Stanley Olson, Sargent at Broadway: The Impressionist Years, exh. cat., Universe/Coe Kerr Gallery (New York, NY, 1986), repr. in b/w p. 21, fig. 3; p. 66, fig. 37; detail, p. 62
  • Kate F. Jennings, John Singer Sargent, Crescent Books (New York, NY, 1991), repr. p. 11, upper left
  • Elaine Kilmurray and Richard Ormond, John Singer Sargent, exh. cat., Tate Gallery Publishing Limited (London, England, 1998), p. 114, reproduced in b/w fig. 70
  • John Esten, Sargent: Painting Out-of-Doors, Universe Press (New York, NY, 2000), repr. p. 29
  • Hugh Brewster, Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose: The Story of a Painting, Kids Can Press (Toronto, 2007), repr. p. 22
  • Alison Syme, A Touch of Blossom: John Singer Sargent and the Queer Flora of Fin-de-Siecle Art (University Park, PA, 2010), p. 155, fig. 136
  • Richard Ormond and Elaine Kilmurray, John Singer Sargent: Figures and Landscapes, 1883-1899, Yale University Press (U.S.) (New Haven and London, 2010), p. 33, fig. 1
  • Marc A. Simpson, Review of "John Singer Sargent: Figures and Landscapes, 1883-1899, Complete Paintings, Volume V" [Ormond and Kilmurray], The Burlington Magazine (April 2011), CLIII, no. 1297, pp. 260-262, p. 261 note 6
  • Richard Ormond and Elaine Kilmurray, John Singer Sargent: Figures and Landscapes, 1914-1925, Yale University Press (New Haven, 2016), fig. 8, p. 34
  • Joyce Townsend and Georgina Rayner, "Sargent's Painting Materials: New Discoveries and Their Implications", Visual Culture in Britain (2018), 19:1, pp. 89-111, pp. 100, fig. 10

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