Artwork Details 

Title: Pointy (portrait of Louise Burckhardt's dog)
Dated: 1885
Medium: Oil on panel
Dimensions: 27.3 x 21.6 cm (10.7" x 8.5 in.)
Location: Private Collection
City, State: Unknown
Provenance:
Louise Burckhardt, Paris; by descent to Valerie Burckhardt; by descent to Mrs. May Hadden Robertson, Ridgefield, Connecticut; by descent to Kenneth D. Robertson, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, 1972; by descent to William A. Robertson; Sotheby's, New York, 12 April 1991, lot 70.
Notes:
From Christies Pointy was a mongrel owned by John Singer Sargent's close friend Louise Burckhardt. Read more