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Egyptian Water Jars

1905
Watercolor and pencil on paper laid down on board
25.4 x 35.6 cm (10 x 14 in)

Private Collection

Unknown, USA

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Note:  Undated painting, I have included it in 1905 which falls in line with his trip to that part of the world. This work will be included in the forthcoming John Singer Sargent catalogue raisonné by Richard Ormond and Elaine Kilmurray, in collaboration with Warren Adelson and Elizabeth Oustinoff. Bibliography W.H. Downes, J.S. Sargent,...
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Egyptian Woman With Earring

1891
Oil
28 x 21 1/4 in.

Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York, NY

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Notes:     Special thanks to Andy Holzopfel, of Baltimore, for taking this picture at the Met (2002) and being a friend of the JSS Gallery.  See some of Andy Holzopfel paintings. Possibly No. 915 or 916 on Charles Merrill Mount list
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Egyptians Raising Water from the Nile

1890-91
Oil on canvas
63.5 x 53.3 cm (25 x 21 in.)

Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York, NY

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El Jaleo

1882
Oil on canvas
237 x 352 cm (93 3/8 x 138 1/2 in.)

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

Boston, MA

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Q. What is the meaning of El Jaleo? I just viewed a video called American Visions: the Gilded Age, done for PBS in 1997 written and narrated by Robert Hughes. In it he talks about El Jaleo. He says it means the spontaneous clapping and shouting that comes like an "Olay!" at the apex of a performance.  So what we're seeing is the zenith of the...
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Eleanora Duse

c. 1893
Oil on canvas
58.5 x 48.2 cm (23 x 19 in.)

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Eleanora Duse (1859-1924) was the leading Italian actress whom had few peers -- including men. She nearly single handily transformed Italian theater with her astonishingly sophisticated interpretation of roles in contrast to the more stilted acting generally seen in that day. By 1892-93 she was at the top of her career and perfomaing on the world...
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Eleonora Randolph Sears

1921
Charcoal on paperboard
24 3/4 x 18 3/4 in

Private Collection

Unknown, USA

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Note: Sold Doyle New York, May 24, 2005, Lot 144, $96,000. Sold from the Collection of William J. and Jean Hogan of Bronxville, New York. The Hogan Collection was assembled predominantly during the 1950s through the 1970s and offers works by a number of prominent American and European artists. Jean Hogan studied nuclear physics and joined IBM...
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Eleutherios Venizelos

1924
Charcoal
16 x 26 in.

Private Collection

Unknown, USA

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Eleutherios (Kyriakos) Venizelos, (1864-1936) Greek statesman and prime minister (1910-15, 1917-20, 1924, 1928-32, 1933), born in Mourniés, Crete, Greece. He studied law in Athens, led the Liberal Party in the Cretan chamber of deputies, and took a prominent part in the Cretan rising against the Turks in 1896. As prime minister of Greece, he...
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Elizabeth Allen Marquand (Mrs. G. Marquand)

1887
Oil on canvas
168.9 x 106.7 cm (66 1/2 x 42 in )

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Henry G. Marquand was a banker who made his money financing railroads for the Vanderbilts and others. Both his wife and he were active in the arts, avid collectors and possessed some of the finest Van Dycks in the United States, an incredible array of Roman bronzes, and a superb collection of Chinese porcelains.  In 1884, the Marquands had...
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Elizabeth Asquith "mug" (later Elizabeth Bibesco)

1914
Charcoal
24 X 16 in

Private Collection

Unknown, USA

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From: Paul Darby  darby  and  joan1@yahoo.com Date:  Sat, 22 May 2004 After 24 years my wife and I finally had a chance to visit her home in Paris from which her daughter had recently been removed to a nursing home. We met a relative who by chance was in town and looked around the apartment - it was a kind of shrine to Elizabeth Asquith...
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Elizabeth Garrett Anderson

1900
Oil on canvas
83.8 x 66 cm (32.99 x 25.98 in.)

Private Collection

Unknown, USA

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Note: References:     Ormond, Richard and Elaine Kilmurray, "John Singer Sargent: complete paintings; volume 3, The later portraits," New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2003, no. 384. McKibbin, David, "Sargent's Boston," Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, 1956. Illustration:     Ormond, Richard and Elaine Kilmurray, "John Singer...
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