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Claude Monet in his Bateau-Atelier

c. 1887
Oil
59.7 x 48.9 cm (23 1/2 x 19 1/4 in.)

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See also: Claude Monet Painting c. 1885 Portrait of Claude Monet 1889 Note: There is some confusion to dating of these informal  plein air paintings with Monet. The SIRIS site has the date of this one as being 1889, although I have found sources that say he canceled a visit with Monet at Giverny that...
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Two Women Asleep in a Punt under the Willows

1887
Oil on canvas
22 X 27 in.

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Mrs. FritzWilliam Sargent (nee Mary Newbold Singer)

1887
Oil on canvas
42.5 x 34.9 cm (16 3/4 x 13 3/4 in.

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A Backwater at Wargrave

1887
Oil on canvas
74.93 x 62.23 cm (29.5 x 24.5 in.)

Private Collection

Unknown, USA

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Under the Willows

1887
Oil on canvas
98 x 131 cm (38 5/8 x 51 5/8 in.)

Private Collection

Unknown, USA

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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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Woman with Bow

c. 1887
Watercolor and graphite on white wove paper
35.5 x 25 cm (13 15/16 x 9 13/16 in.)

Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York, NY

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Mrs. Edward Darley Boit (Mary Louisa Cushing)

Oil on canvas
152.4 x 108.58 cm (60 x 42 3/4 in.)

Museum of Fine Arts

Boston, MA

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Portrait of Elizabeth Nelson Fairchild

1887
Oil on canvas
49.69 x 46.36 cm (19 9/16 x 18 1/4 in.)

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Mrs. Charles Fairchild  (Elizabeth Nelson Fairchild 1845-1924). Sargent sent this painting off to be exhibited it at the New English Art Club that same year. Mrs. Fairchild was a poet and was often a hostess of parties for artist friends. It was probably through one of these social gatherings that John first met them.  It would be Mr....
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General Lucius Fairchild

1887
Oil on canvas
127.6 x 82.6 cm (50 1/4 x 32 1/2 in.)

State Historical Society of Wisconsin

Madison, WI

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Quite a remarkable man. He was a three term Wisconsin Governor (1866-72); A decorated civil war hero at Gettysburg were he was severely wounded during the famous Pickett's charge and had his arm amputated, was subsequently taken prisoner and eventually paroled. He then was commissioned brigadier-general. After his term as governor he went on to...
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Portrait of Sally Fairchild

c. 1885-1887
Oil on canvas
67 x 50.8 cm (26 3/8 x 20 in.)

Private Collection

Unknown, USA

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Notes: References:  Ormond, Richard and Elaine Kilmurray, "John Singer Sargent: complete paintings; volume 1, The early portraits," New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1998, no. 202.; McKibbin, David, "Sargent's Boston," Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1956. Illustration:  Ormond, Richard and Elaine Kilmurray, "John Singer Sargent:...
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Mrs. Charles E. Inches (nee Louise Pomeroy)

1887
Oil on canvas
86.36 x 60.64 cm (34 x 23 7/8 in.)

Museum of Fine Arts

Boston, MA

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Note Exhibitions Sargent's Women,  Adelson Galleries, New York, 2003 Nicole Kidman's Mrs. Charles E. Inches  
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Portrait of Caspar Goodrich

1887
Oil on canvas
66.3 x 48.6 cm (26 1/8 x 19 1/8 in.)

Private Collection

Unknown, USA

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From: Christie's While all of Newport angled for a meeting with the great European-bred artist, Sargent resided comfortably with his old friends, Admiral and Mrs. Caspar Goodrich, parents of the young sitter. Charles Merrill Mount describes Sargent's arrival in the United States: "He arrived at Torpedo Station huge and dominant, smiling and...
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Mrs. Raphael Pumpelly (nee Eliza Shepard)

1887
Oil on canvas
76.2 x 63.5 cm ( 30 x 25 in.)

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The Sons of Mrs. Malcolm Forbes

1887-1888
Oil on canvas
75 x 89.5 cm (29 1/2 x 35 1/4 in.)

Private Collection

Unknown, USA

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Brothers from left to right: Henry Forbes (b. 1882) and Gerrit Forbes (1880-ca. 1965)     Notes:  Image taken from Dovercards, however documentation and dating from The Smithsonian Catalogue of Works     Bibilography: Ormond, Richard and Elaine Kilmurray, "John Singer Sargent: complete paintings;  volume 1, The early portraits,"...
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Ruth Sears Bacon

1887
Oil on canvas
48 1/3 x 36 3/4 in.

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From: a great grandson  Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 "Ruth Sears Bacon was my great-grandmother. By the time I knew "Gagy" she was about 95 years old (she died when she was 102). Family lore has an interesting story around that picture. Apparently she was a willful little girl, and disappeared somewhere off to play when she was supposed to be...
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Isabella Stewart Gardner

1888
Oil on canvas
190 x 81.2 cm (74 3/4 x 32 in.)

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

Boston, MA

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Much of the wealth of European art that American now has in its museums has a lot to do with a small handful of very farsighted and eccentric art collectors during the Gilded Age . Few of these were as eccentric and interesting as Isabella Stewart Gardner (1840-1925). She was born the daughter of David Stewart, a business owner from New York...
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Mrs William Henry Vanderbilt (Maria Louisa Kissam)

1888
Oil on Canvas
173.3 x 130.2 cm (68 1/4 x 51 1/4/ in.)

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George Washington Vanderbilt 1890 (youngest son to Mrs William Henry Vanderbilt) Notes: Special thanks to Todd from North Carolina, a friend of the JSS Gallery, for sending me this image.
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Margaret Louisa Vanderbilt (Mrs. Elliot Fitch Shepard)

1888
Oil on canvas
213.36 x 121.92 cm (84 x 48 in)

San Antonio Museum of Art

San Antonio, TX

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From: Dale Headington   (Westlon  123 @ aol.com)  Date:  Wed, 30 Oct 2002  Margaret Louisa Vanderbilt (1845-1924) was the eldest daughter of William Henry Vanderbilt and Maria Louisa Kissam Vanderbilt (and therefore the sister of William Kissam Vanderbilt I and George Washington Vanderbilt). She married Elliott Fitch Shepard...
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Alice Vanderbilt Shepard

1888
Oil on canvas
76.52 x 55.88 cm (30 1/8 x 22 in.)

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The painting was exhibited at the The World Columbian Exposition, Chicago, in 1893 along with eight other portraits. This portrait was unique -- not entirely -- but among many. Sargent had asked Alice's parents for permission to paint her, he wasn't asked. John had been executing a commission for her father, the lawyer and newspaper...
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Miss Reubell Seated in Front of a Screen

1888
Watercolor and gouache on paper
34.93 x 25.40 cm (13 3/4 x 10 in)

Private Collection

Unknown, USA

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Mrs. Adrian Iselin (nee Eleanora O'Donnell)

1888
Oil on canvas
60 1/2 x 36 1/2 in.

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C.

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Eleanora (1818-1905), was the wife of a Swiss-American businessman. They were from New York where this was painted. She was 64 years old. Close-up Mrs. Iselin's hand See as it hangs at the  National Gallery, Washington, D.C. 2003 Notes: Exhibitions John Singer Sargent, An Exhibition -- Whitney...
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Miss Cara Burch (1878-1961)

1888
Oil on canvas
30 1/4 x 25 in.

New Britain Museum of American Art

New Britain, CT

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Mrs. Jacob Wendell

1888
Oil
60 x 36 in.

Private Collection

Unknown, USA

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A Morning Walk

1888
Oil on canvas
67 x 50..2 cm (26 3/8 x 19 3/4 in.)

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A Backwater Calcot Mill near Reading

1888
Oil on canvas
51.3 x 68.6 cm (20 3/16 x27 in.)

Baltimore Museum of Art

Baltimore, MD

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Under The Willows (1)

1888
Watercolor on paper
Unknown size

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A Backwater at Calcot

1888
Oil on canvas
25 x 29 3/4 in

Private Collection

Unknown, USA

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St Martins Summer

1888
Oil on canvas
91.4 x68.6 cm (36 x27 in.)

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Nettie Huxley (later Mrs. Rollar)

1888
Pencil
9 1/4 x 5 7/8 in.

Yale University Art Gallery

New Haven, CT

notes
Nattie would marry Harold Roller and the both had visited Sargent when John's father was ill  according to Charteris (Charteris p. 99). She is also referred to in Sargent's letter to Isabella Stewart Gardner in 1889, but there she is referred to as Miss Huxley, so she probably married Harold Roller later (see letter). Anyway, Charles Merrill...
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Edwin Austin Abbey

Pencil
14 x 10 1/8 in.

Yale University Art Gallery

New Haven, CT

notes
Edwin Austin Abbey, (American artist, 1852-1911) best known for his illustrations for Harpers magazine, his mural work for the Boston Public Library; murals at his native state capitol in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; his many theatrical / literary paintings; and The Coronation of Edward VII (1902-1904, Buckingham Palace) Edwin was born in...
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Dennis Miller Bunker Painting at Calcot

1888
Oil on canvas
26 3/4 x 25 in.

The Terra Foundation for American Art

Chicago, IL

notes
Dennis Miller Bunker was a young American painter from Boston. He had first met Sargent in Boston the winter of '87-'88 through Mrs. Isabella Stewart Gardner, a patron of both Sargent and the young Bunker. In the Summer, Bunker plans to visited Sargent at Calcot and writes to Mrs Gardner:  June 25, 1888 I expect to be off in the country in a...
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By the River

1888
Oil on canvas
31 x 25 in.

Private Collection

Unknown, USA

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Notes: Special thanks to Andy Holzopfel, of Baltimore, for letting me know about this painting and being a friend of the JSS Gallery.  See some of Andy Holzopfel's paintings.  Exhibitions Sargent's Women,  Adelson Galleries, New York, 2003
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Jack Millet as a Baby

1888
Pencil on paper
14 x 23.5 cm (5 1/2 x 9 1/4 in.)

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Mrs George Gribble (Norah Royds)

1888
Oil on canvas
89 x 46 3/4 in.

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Norah Royds (1859-1923) married George James Gribble (of London) on July 27, 1881. Seven years later, when she was about twenty-nine, Sargent painted her. They would have six children: i. Phyllis   ii. Norah le Grand   iii. Lesley   iv. Barbara   v. Philip le Grand 1891-   vi. Julian Royds, VC 1897-19 Norah survive, but...
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Ellen Terry as Lady Macbeth

1889
Oil on canvas
221 x 114.3 cm

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Probably the closest Sargent ever got to the Pre-Raphael Brotherhood was with his paintings of the famous actress, Dame Ellen Terry (1847–1928) as Lady Macbeth after the first performance in the role; and yet this is not at all an allegorical painting, just a straight portrait of the actress in costume playing Lady Macbeth. Still, the tone, the...
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Ellen Terry as Lady Macbeth (sketch)

1889
Oil on canvas
53.5 x 40.6 cm (21.06 x 15.98 in.)

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Mrs. J. W. Comyns Carr

c. 1889
Oil on canvas
64.5 x 50.5 cm (25 3/8 x 19 7/8 in.)

notes
Joseph Williams Comyns Carr (1849-1916), her husband, was an art critic and theatre manager.    Notes:  Exhibitions Sargent's Women,  Adelson Galleries, New York, 2003
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George Henschel

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

Private Collection

Unknown, USA

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When John painted him, Henschel was directing the London Symphony Concerts and was very much apart of that circle of artist in London. From: Morrison Foundation.org Sir George (Isidor Georg) Henschel (b. Feb. 18, 1850; d. Sept. 10, 1934), was a celebrated singer, composer and conductor. He entered the Leipzig Conservatory in 1867 and studied...
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Mrs. Edmond Kelly (nee Fannie Bartow)

1899
Oil on canvas
111.8 x 81.3 cm (44 x 32 in.)

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Cicely Horner

c. 1889
Oil on canvas laid down
61.0 x 40.6 cm (24 x 16 in)

Private Collection

Unknown, USA

notes
From: Bonhams & Butterfield A letter dated 1924, relating to the provenance of this painting accompanies the lot. It states in part: The Sargent picture "Lady Horner's Daughter" was painted by Sargent at least fifteen years ago. It came through Mrs. C. Lewis Hind of London direct from the family, within the last three years./Mrs. Hind took...
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Portrait of Claude Monet

1889
Oil on canvas
16 x 13 in.

National Academy of Design

New York, NY

notes
Though Sargent's work was increasingly more and more about portraits, diverging substantially from the work Monet was doing, the two men retained a very close friendship. A wounderful account of this was written by Martin Birnbaum called "John Singer Sargent, A Conversation Piece." Many years later (maybe around 1901 when there was a lot of...
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Painting of Gabriel Faure

1889
Oil on canvas
61 x 54.6 cm (24 x 21 1/2 in.)

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French composer Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924) is widely regarded as the greatest master of French song. Sargent met Fauré in Paris when he was living there and studying. He fell in love with his work and would be a big supporter of Fauré most of his life. Gabriel Fauré (graphite)  1896 Gabriel Faure...
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Mademoiselle Roger-Jourdain

1889
Oil on canvas
60 x 44.9 cm (23 5/8 x 17 11/16 in)

Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute

Williamstown, MA

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Notes:  Special thanks to Andy Yelenak, an artist himself and a contributing friend of the JSS Gallery, for taking this picture to share with us. Bibliography:     Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, collection checklist, 1972. McKibbin, David, "Sargent's Boston," Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1956. Ormond, Richard and Elaine...
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Charles Stuart Forbes

c. 1889
Oil on canvas
73.7 x 61 cm (29 x 24 in.)

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American born artist who studied with Sargent in Paris and fellow colleague. He was one of four artists that painted Robert Browning in 1881 at Browning son's Palazzo Rezzonico in Venice along with Ralph Curtis and others.  Notes: Exhibitions John Singer Sargent, An Exhibition -- Whitney Museum, NY & The Art Institute of...
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Javanese Dancer

1889
Oil on canvas
172.2 x 80 cm (68 x 31 1/2 in.)

Private Collection

Unknown, USA

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The Javanese dancers had come to the Paris to perform in the colonial section of the Paris Exposition Universal of 1889. They were so popular that they remained for a time  performing in theaters and became part of cosmopolitan chic that was prevalent in the wake of the Exposition. Sargent, not one to pass up an opportunity to paint exotic...
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A Javanese Girl at Her Toilet

1889
Oil on canvas
25 1/2 x 21 in.

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A Javanese Dancer

1889
Oil
177.8 x 81.3 cm (70 x 32 in.)

Private Collection

Unknown, USA

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Notes:  Exhibitions Sargent's Women,  Adelson Galleries, New York, 2003 Bibliography: Mount, Charles Merrill, "John Singer Sargent: a biography," London: Cresset Press, 1957. Catalogue    JSS: 20055 SIRIS IAP: 81710128 CMM: K8911
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Javanese dancer sketch

1889
Graphite pencil on paper
9.9 x 13 cm (7 13/16 x 5 1/8 in.)

Museum of Fine Arts

Boston, MA

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Two Women in a Cafe

1918
Watercolor, gouache, graphite, and wax crayon on white wove paper
13 5/16 x 20 15/16 in. (33.9 x 53.1 cm)

Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York, NY

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Lady Fishing - Mrs. Ormond

1889
Oil on canvas
184.8 x 97.8 cm

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From: Tate Gallery Display Caption   (29-Apr-1996) Violet  1881 It was while Sargent was living in the Cotswolds during the 1880s that his painting was closest to Impressionism. He was friendly with Monet, whom he visited in France several times. Sargent rented a large house in Fladbury, beside the River Avon, in...
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Violet Fishing

1889
Oil on canvas
71.1 x 53.3 cm (28 x 21 in.)

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Notes: Exhibitions John Singer Sargent, An Exhibition -- Whitney Museum, NY & The Art Institute of Chicago 1986-1987 Sargent's Women,  Adelson Galleries, New York, 2003 Lady Fishing - Mrs. Ormond   1889   Tate Gallery London   Oil on canvas   184.8 x 97.8 cm  
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A Portrait of Violet

1889
Oil on canvas
59.69 x 38.1 cm (23.5 x 15 in.)

Private Collection

Unknown, USA

notes
Possibly it was Violet again that inspired Sargent sketch below: Woman Sketch Date? Violet  1881  Notes: Exhibitions Sargent's Women,  Adelson Galleries, New York, 2003
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Woman Sketch

c. 1889 ?
Graphite on off-white wove paper bound in a beige canvas sketchbook
15.2 x 24.2 cm

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This may be Sargent's sister Violet A Portrait of Violet 1889 From: Harvard Contained in a Sketchbook with 16 numbered pages.  The sketchbook contains portraits of several women, including: Vernon Lee (Violet Paget) and Alice Guerin (Madame Paul Helleu). The sketchbook also contains studies of animals: gorillas, cats,...
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Two Girls with Parasols at Fladbury

1889
Oil on canvas
74.9 x 63.5 cm (29 1/2 x 25 in.)

Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York, NY

notes
See as it hung in the Met 2003 Note:   Exhibitions John Singer Sargent, An Exhibition -- Whitney Museum, NY & The Art Institute of Chicago 1986-1987
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Two Girls on a Lawn

c. 1889
Oil on canvas
21 1/8 x 25 1/4 in. (53.7 x 64.1 cm)

Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York, NY

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Violet Resting on the Grass

1889
Watercolor
24.77 x 34.29 cm (9.75 x 13.5 in.)

Private Collection

Unknown, USA

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Paul Helleu Lying in a Field

c. 1889
Pastel on paper
26 x 37.8 cm (10 1/4 x 14 7/8)

notes
Paul Helleu Sketching with his Wife  1889  Portrait of Paul Helleu c. 1885-1889 Note:  Exhibitions John Singer Sargent, An Exhibition -- Whitney Museum, NY & The Art Institute of Chicago 1986-1987
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Vernon Lee (Violet Paget)

1889
Pencil on paper
33.7 x 22.9 cm (13 1/4 x 9 in.)

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Paul Helleu Sketching with his Wife

1889
Oil on canvas
26 1/8 x 32 1/8 in.

Brooklyn Museum

New York, NY

notes
The painting was given very little notice in the reviews when it was exhibited, however I find it one of my favorites of John's work and one of his truest Impressionistic paintings.  Paul César Helleu (French, 1859-1927) met Alice Louise Guérin in Paris in 1884 and they married two years later. Alice became Paul's favorite model. Over the...
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Portrait of Paul Helleu

c. 1885-1889
Pastel on paper
49.4 x 44.8 cm (sight)

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Paul César Helleu   1859-1927 John Singer Sargent's close friend Paul Helleu  had a dazzling career as a society portraitist. But it might not have ever started if it weren't for JSS (See Paul Helleu Sketching, 1899) It may come as a surprise to many  that Helleu was also the creator of the astrological ceiling decoration in New York's...
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Sketch of a Man (Paul Helleu)

1889
Charcoal on paper
29.5 x 23.5 cm (11 5/8 x 9 1/4 in.)

Museum of Fine Arts

Boston, MA

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Madame Helleu

c. 1889
Oil on canvas
102.9 x 82.6 cm (40 1/2 x 32 1/2 in)

Private Collection

Unknown, USA

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A Boating Party

1889
Oil on canvas
34 5/8 x 36 3/8 in.

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Thistles (1)

1885 / 89
Oil on canvas
55.9 x 71.8 cm (22 x 28 1/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, IL

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Autumn on the River (Miss Violet Sargent)

1889
Oil on canvas
76.2 x 50.8 cm (30 x 20 in.)

Private Collection

Unknown, USA

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Two Girls In a Punt

1889
Oil on canvas
14 x 17.5 in.

Private Collection

Unknown, USA

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Violet Sargent and Flora Priestley

1889
Oil on Canvas
55.9 x 41.9 cm (22 x 161/2 in.)

Private Collection

Unknown, USA

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Miss Priestley

c. 1889
Oil on canvas
91.4 x 63.5 cm

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Portrait of Dorothy Barnard

1889
Oil on canvas
70.5 x 39.4 cm

notes
From: Fitzwilliam Museum The subject of this unfinished portrait was Miss Dorothy Barnard (1878-1949), daughter of the painter and illustrator of Dickens -- Frederick Barnard (1848-96), one of Sargent's friends from the artistic colony in the Cotswold village of Broadway, whom he met for the first time in 1885. Dorothy and her sister Polly were...
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Polly Barnard (A.K.A Girl in White Muslin)

1889
Oil on canvas
32 1/4 x 26 3/4 in

Private Collection

Unknown, USA

notes
Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose  1885-86 (Polly Barnard with her sister years earlier) Portrait of Dorothy Barnard 1889 (sister to Polly Barnard) Mrs. Frederick Barnard 1885   (mother to Polly Barnard)  
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A Game of Bowls

C 1889
Oil on canvas
142.9 x 229.2 cm (56 1/4 x 90 1/4 in.)

Whitney Museum of American Art

New York, NY

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Miss Elsie Palmer

1889-90
Oil on canvas
190.8 x 114.6 cm (75 1/8 x 45 1/8 in.)

notes
Miss Elsie Palmer later Mrs. L. H. Myers (1873-1955). She was the daughter of a wealthy expatriate American from Colorado.  Mrs. Palmer had rented the Ightham Mote house near Kent of which Sargent became a frequent guest. It was here that he also painted A Game of Bowls. At this time, Sargent was far more popular with Americans and although...
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Elsie Palmer

c. 1889-1890
Oil on canvas
74.9 x 62.3 cm (29.49 x 24.53 in.)

Private Collection

Unknown, USA

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Alma Strettell (or "Stretell")

c. 1889
Oil on canvas
66 x 54.6 (6 x 21 1/2 in.)

Private Collection

Unknown, USA

notes
Alma Strettell, later Alma Strettell Harrison 1856-1939    Poet and writer, she was intensly interested in folk music and wrote or co-wrote:  Spanish and Italian Folk-Songs; London, 1887 Legends from River and Mountain; Carmen Sylva (H. M. Queen of Roumania) and Alma Strettell, Illustrated by T. H. Robinson, George Allen, London, 1896,...
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Clementina Anstruther-Thomson

1889
Oil on canvas
106.7 x 74 cm (42 x 29 1/8 in.)

Private Collection

Unknown, USA

notes
Description:     Three-quarter-length portrait of Clementina Anstruther-Thomson (1857-1921) standing outdoors. She wears a walking suit and hat. Her hands hold her coat at her chest. Portrait of Miss Clementina 1889  Note: Bibliography:     Ormond, Richard and Elaine Kilmurray, "John Singer Sargent: complete...
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Portrait of Miss Clementina

1889
Oil on canvas
81.3 x 66 cm (32 x 26 in.)

Private Collection

Unknown, USA

notes
This painting is seen as a study for the more finished portrait three-quarters length. Miss Clementina was a friend of Vernon Lee. Clementina Anstruther-Thomson 1889 Note: Sold Sothebys; 11/29/1995; Lot 38; $40,250 Bibliography:     Ormond, Richard and Elaine Kilmurray, "John Singer Sargent: complete...
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Moroccan Street

1890 - 1895
Oil on canvas
70.49 cm. x 91.44 cm., actual

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Old Man with Dark Turban

c. 1890-91
Mounted and floated on new linen canvas supports
20 x 22 in (actual)

notes
Bibliography: Elaine Kilmurray and Richard Ormond, John Singer Sargent, exh. cat., Tate Gallery Publishing (London, England, 1998), p. 189, under no. 78 Exhibition History: First Sight: Newly Conserved Works at the Fogg, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/04/1993 - 10/17/1993 Sargent in the Studio: Drawings, Sketchbooks, and Oil...
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Old Man with a White Turban

1890 - 1895
Oil on canvas
71.12 cm. x 66.04 cm., actual

notes
Bibliography Elaine Kilmurray and Richard Ormond, John Singer Sargent, exh. cat., Tate Gallery Publishing (London, England, 1998), p. 189, under no. 78 Exhibition First Sight: Newly Conserved Works at the Fogg, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/04/1993 - 10/17/1993
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Man with a White Turban

1890 - 1895
Oil on canvas
93.98 cm. x 66.04 cm., actual

notes
Notes: These were accessioned in 1990, using 1937 accession numbers [Editor's Note - what's up with that? ]. First set of dimensions given above are image dimensions; second set are dimensions of new stretcher. Curatorial file contains unpublished paper by Lydia Vagts, Conservation Intern, and article by M. Kingsbury. From Timothy Burgard's...
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Old Man with a White Beard

1890 - 1895
Oil on canvas
88.9 cm. x 66.04 cm. x 1.91 cm., actual

notes
Notes:  Bibliography Elaine Kilmurray and Richard Ormond, John Singer Sargent, exh. cat., Tate Gallery Publishing (London, England, 1998), p. 189, under no. 78
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Man in Blue Turban

c. 1890 - 1891
Oil on canvas
101.6 cm. x 83.82 cm. x 1.91 cm., actual

notes
Notes:     Bibliography Elaine Kilmurray and Richard Ormond, John Singer Sargent, exh. cat., Tate Gallery Publishing (London, England, 1998), cat. no 78, p. 189, repr. in color, detail repr. in color p. 176
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Interior of a Bath House

c. 1890 - 1891
Oil on canvas
83.82 cm. x 65.41 cm., actual

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Two Seated Arabs, Palestine

c. 1890-1906
Graphite on off-white wove paper
18.2 cm. x 12.8 cm., actual

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Study of Arab Women

Charcoal
Unknown size

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Study of a Head of a Bull

1891-1892
Graphite on white wove paper
18.2 cm. x 12.7 cm., actual

notes
From his trip to the middle east he would use a version of this in his Boston Public Library Murals Pagan Gods Moloch   (North End: Vaulting, Left side)    1895     Notes: Bibliography Martha Kingsbury, "Sargent's Murals in the Boston Public Library", Winterthur Portfolio, 1976, vol. XI, p. 167, fig....
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The Sphinx

c 1890-1891
Watercolor
35.88 x 47.63 cm (14.12 x 18.75 in.)

Private Collection

Unknown, USA

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Profile of an Egyptian Pharaoh

1890-1891
Graphite on off-white wove paper
23.9 cm. x 14.6 cm., actual

 GAigrkio
Study of an Egyptian Architectural Facade

1891
Charcoal and graphite (fixed) on off-white wove paper
35.4 cm. x 25.8 cm., actual

notes
Notes: Bibliography Elaine Kilmurray and Richard Ormond, John Singer Sargent, exh. cat., Tate Gallery Publishing (London, England, 1998), p. 184, cat. no 74, repr. in color
GAigrkio
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

 GAigrkio
Bedouin Women Carrying Water

1891
Oil on canvas
20.5 x 13.5 in.

Private Collection

Unknown, USA

 GAigrkio
Cliffs at Deir el Bahri, Egypt

1890-1891
Oil on canvas
34.9 x 62.9 cm (13 3/4 x 24 3/4 in.)

Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York, NY

 GAigrkio
The Fellah Woman

Oil
22 x 18 in.

Private Collection

Unknown, USA

 GAigrkio
Bedouin Women (1)

c.1891
Oil on panel
13.88 x 10.25 in.

Private Collection

Unknown, USA

 GAigrkio
An Egyptian Woman

Oil on canvas
64.8 x 53.3 cm (25 1/2 x 21 in.)

Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York, NY

notes
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
GAigrkio
Egyptian Woman With Earring

1891
Oil
28 x 21 1/4 in.

Metropolitan Museum of Art

New York, NY

notes
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
GAigrkio
A Bedouin Arab

c. 1891
Oil on canvas
66 x 51.4 cm (26 x 20 1/4 in.)

Private Collection

Unknown, USA

 GAigrkio
Head of an Arab

c.1891
Oil on canvas
80.01 x 58.74 cm (31 1/2 x 23 1/8 in.)

Museum of Fine Arts

Boston, MA

 GAigrkio
Two Architectural Studies

c. 1891
Oil on canvas
80.33 x 63.5 cm (31 5/8 x 25 in.)

Museum of Fine Arts

Boston, MA

 GAigrkio
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