1937.210: Daffodils in a Vase

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1937.210

People

John Singer Sargent, American (Florence, Italy 1856 - 1925 London, England)

Title

Daffodils in a Vase

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting

Date

c. 1891-1894

Places

Creation Place: North America, United States

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/230646

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

71.1 x 85.1 cm (28 x 33 1/2 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

1937.210

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., Virginia Anderson, and Kimberly Orcutt, ed., American Paintings at Harvard, Volume Two, Paintings, Drawings, Pastels and Stained Glass by Artists Born 1826-1856, Harvard Art Museums and Yale University Press (U.S.) (Cambridge, MA and New Haven, CT, 2008), p. 304, cat. no. 319, reproduced in color
• Richard Ormond and Elaine Kilmurray, John Singer Sargent: Figures and Landscapes, 1883-1899, Yale University Press (U.S.) (New Haven and London, 2010), pp. 101, 258, 259, 357, no. 959, repr. p. 259
• Elizabeth Doe Stone, "Mobility and the Matter of Memory: John Singer Sargent's 'Robert Louis Stevenson and His Wife'", Art History (March 2019), pp. 1-25, p. 19

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