1907

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Val d'Aosta, Man Fishing

c. 1907
Oil on canvas
56.2 x 71.75 cm (22.13 x 28.25 in.)

Addison Gallery of Art

Andover, MA

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Brook among Rocks

1900-1920
Transparent and opaque watercolor over graphite pencil on paper
35.6 x 50.8 cm (14 x 20 in.)

Museum of Fine Arts

Boston, MA

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The Chess Game

1907
Oil on canvas
69.9 x 55.3 cm (27-1/2 x 21-3/4 in.)

Private Collection

Unknown, USA

notes
Sargent was an avid chess player and was a game he often played on his painting trips. In the summer of 1907 Sargent takes a trip to Purtud which is a little town in the Val d'Aosta on the Italian-Swiss border and there he paints his nieces and friends.  A Game of Chess (Sketch)   Just like his formal commissioned...
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Zuleika

c. 1907
Transparent watercolor with touches of opaque watercolor over graphite on off-white, thick, rough-textured wove paper
25.4 x 35.6 cm (10 x 14 in.)

Brooklyn Museum

New York, NY

notes
Zuleika (zoo-LAY-ka) is of Persian and indirectly biblical origins with the meaning: "Brilliant Beauty".  Though the name is never directly used in the bible, it appeared in later retellings of the story of Joseph and is meant to be the wife of Joseph's employer "Potiphar" - the Captain of the Bodyguards to the Pharaoh of Egypt. The Egyptian's...
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Oxen Resting

1907
Oil on canvas
55.9 x 71.1 cm (22 x 28 in.)

Private Collection

Unknown, USA

notes
Four Studies of Cows Notes  Exhibitions John Singer Sargent, An Exhibition -- Whitney Museum, NY & The Art Institute of Chicago 1986-1987
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Four Studies of Cows

maybe 1907
Pen and brown ink over graphite on off-white wove paper
29.4 cm. x 19.7 cm., actual

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Behind the Salute

1907
Watercolor on paper
34.9 x 50.2 cm (13 3/4 x 19 3/4 in.)

Private Collection

Unknown, USA

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Guiudecca

c.1907
Watercolor on paper
25.4 x 35.56 cm (10 x 14 in.)

Brooklyn Museum

New York, NY

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Venice - La Salute

1906-1911
Watercolor over graphite, with wax resist, on thick, rough, cream wove paper
40.5 x 53.2 cm (15 15/16 x 20 15/16 in.)

Museum of Fine Arts

Boston, MA

notes
See also: Santa Maria della Salute 1904 Notes Exhibitions    Gondola Days: Isabella Stewart Gardner and the Palazzo Barbaro Circle, 2004
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Baroness de Meyer

1907
Charcoal on paper
34 1/2 x 28 in.

Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery

Birmingham, UK

notes
In 1907, the Baroness de Meyer was painted  in Venice by Sargent's friend William Bruce Ranken (1881-1941). It very well could have been in Venice where Sargent sketched her. From: Europeanpaintings.com  8/15/02 Maria Beatrice Olga Alberta Caracciolo (born in London 8 August 1871) was the daughter of the Duchess of Castelluccio, and...
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