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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.155
People
John Singer Sargent, American (Florence, Italy 1856 - 1925 London, England)
Title
In the Simplon Valley
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
c. 1909-1911
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/303990

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
96.8 x 115.9 cm (38 1/8 x 45 5/8 in.)
framed: 114 x 133.4 x 7.3 cm (44 7/8 x 52 1/2 x 2 7/8 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
The artist's estate sale, Christie's, London, July 24-27, 1925, lot 84; purchased by Scott and Fowles; purchased from them by Grenville L. Winthrop, New York, October 20, 1926; his bequest to the Fogg Art Museum, 1943.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.155
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Catalogue of Pictures and Water Colour Drawings by J. S. Sargent. R. A., auct. cat., Christie, Manson and Woods, Ltd. (London, England, 1925), no. 84
  • John Singer Sargent, His Own Work, exh. cat., Coe Kerr Gallery, Inc. (New York, NY, 1980), in checklist, unpaginated
  • Henry Lie, Straus Center for Conservation Annual Report 1994-1995 (1996), p. 45
  • Masterpieces of world art : Fogg Art Museum, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Busch-Reisinger Museum, 1997
  • Stephan Wolohojian, ed., A Private Passion: 19th-Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, Harvard University, exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale University Press (U.S.) (New York, 2003), pp. 462-63, cat. 209, ill.
  • Stephan Wolohojian, Ingres, Burne-Jones, Whistler, Renoir... La Collection Grenville L. Winthrop, exh. cat., Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon and Réunion des Musées Nationaux (Paris, France, 2003), pp. 474-475, cat. 208, ill.
  • 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. 330-31, cat. no. 348, reproduced in color, p. 331
  • Richard Ormond and Elaine Kilmurray, John Singer Sargent: Figures and Landscapes, 1908-1913, Yale University Press (U.S.) (New Haven and London, 2014), no. 1586, repr., repr. p. 6 (detail), pp. 120, 179, 372

Exhibition History

  • The Persistence of Memory: Continuity and Change in American Cultures, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 07/29/1995 - 05/13/2001
  • A Private Passion: 19th-Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, Harvard University, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, Lyon, 03/15/2003 - 05/26/2003; National Gallery, London, 06/25/2003 - 09/14/2003; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 10/23/2003 - 01/25/2004
  • For Students of Art and Lovers of Beauty: Highlights from the Collection of Grenville L. Winthrop, Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/16/2004
  • Re-View: S424-426 Western Art from 1560 to 1900, Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 08/16/2008 - 06/18/2011
  • 32Q: 2700 Impressionism, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/16/2014 - 11/13/2019

Subjects and Contexts

  • Collection Highlights
  • Google Art Project

Verification Level

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