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 | A Nude Boy on a Beach 1878 | 
From: Tate Gallery
After the
success of his 'Oyster Gatherers of Cancale' at the 1878 Paris Salon, Sargent
went to Naples and Capri for part of the summer. Two of the oil sketches he made
there, this one and another in the collection of the Ormond family, were later
used in a very direct fashion for the painting 'Boys on a Beach, Naples',... | GA | igrkio |
 | Boy on the Beach, Capri c. 1878 Private Collection Unknown, USA | GA | igrkio | |
 | Breton Girl with a Basket, Sketch for "Oyster Gatherers of Cancale" 1877 The Terra Foundation for American Art Chicago, IL |
Notes:
Oyster Gatherers of
Cancale
Oyster Gatherers of
Cancale (sketch)
Exhibition History:
American
Paintings from the Collection of Daniel J. Terra, Museum of Art, The
Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania (organizer).
Venue: Museum of Art, The Pennsylvania State University,... | GA | igrkio |
 | Child (study for Oyster Gatherers) 1877-78 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY | GA | igrkio | |
 | Low Tide at Cancale Harbor 1878 Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA |
Looking
northerly along the sea wall of Cancale at la Houle -- the harbor. Just beyond
the sail of the boat you can see a dark brownish ramp that leads from the
Lighthouse (not shown off frame left) down into the harbor at low tide. The
"ramp" was replaced by a masonry "jetty" called Cale de la
Fenêtre. You can see the "ramp" in the photo... | GA | igrkio |
 | Oyster Gatherers of Cancale 1878 Corcoran Gallery of Art Washington, D.C. |
Three days of arid Paris
contain less delights than one Cancalaise hour.
When
Sargent visited there in 1877, many of the men were away -- as they would often
be through the nineteenth century -- sailing far into the ocean bound for the
rich fisheries of Newfoundland, gambling big on a catch that might pay
handsomely. Fathers, sons, brothers,... | GA | igrkio |
 | Oyster Gatherers of Cancale (Sketch), Also titled Fishing for Oysters at Cancale 1878 Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA |
I originally had the sketch incorrectly
marked.
From: Wonsug Jung
10/23/99
Hi, Nat.
I have
found in your thumbnail gallery page 1, 'Oyster Gatherers of Cancale' is
wrongly referred to as a collection of the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington
DC.
But this
image is a sketch version (you can tell it quickly by the hair color of the boy
on... | GA | igrkio |
 | Woman Carrying Basket, for "Oyster Gatherers of Cancale" c. 1878 |
Bibliography
Elaine
Kilmurray and Richard Ormond, John Singer Sargent, exh. cat., Tate Gallery
Publishing (London, England, 1998), p. 62-66, under no. 2
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- John Singer Sargent
