Painting appears to be fishermen drying their nets on the beach somewhat in theme with what he would do in Egypt in 1890-1891:
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Egyptians Raising Water from the Nile 1890-91 |
Dating of the work is difficult as I can put Sargent NEAR Algeria any number of years but not IN Algeria any specific year. Possibly he was there as early as 1880. Possibly he was there when he was working on idea's for the murals in 1891. Elisabeth Casenave, in her book puts it this way:
In 1891, he leaves for Greece and Turky, then travels through Sicily in 1897, Spain and Poetugal in 1903. He certainly goes to Algeria since among his works is "Algerian and mauresque coast, beach of Algiers"
("Les ARtistes de l'Algérie" by Elisabeth Casenave - translated)
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A Street in Algiers 1880 |
Notes:
Special thanks to Françoise Bernard Briès, of St Victor la Coste, France, a friend of the JSS Gallery, for sending me the image of Sargent's painting along with excerpts from Elisabeth Casenave's book. The image is from Elisabeth Casenave's book
Paris, 1962, Centre culturel americain (American arts center)
New York, 1924, Retrospective, Grand Central Art Galleries,
The painting appeared in the book "Les ARtistes de l'Algérie" by Elisabeth Casenave
Catalogue of Retrospective, Grand Central Art Galleries, New York, 1924
