There are two additional paintings which Sargent did of Jefferson. One was a much smaller oil bust portrait (47 x 38 cm) which John kept in his collection until his death. A second was done of Jefferson as Rip Van Winkle and is curently in the collection of  University of Georgia, Georgia Museum of Art

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Notes:

Players Club, 16 Gramercy Park, New York, New York

Joseph Jefferson, (painting).

Dates:     1890.

Medium:   Oil on canvas.

Dimensions: 18 1/2 x 15 in. (47 x 38 cm)

Inscription:  (Upper right:) J. S. S. signed

Description: Portrait sketch of Joseph Jefferson (1829-1905).

Subject:     Portrait male -- Jefferson, Joseph -- Bust

Owner:     Anonymous Collection.

Provenance:     Formerly in the collection of Sargent, John Singer, until 1925.

Ormond, Violet, until 1955.

Pitman, Hugo, Mrs. (Reine), until 1971.

Exhibitions:    

Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco, 1915, no. 3632.

References:    

Ormond, Richard and Elaine Kilmurray, "John Singer Sargent: complete paintings; volume 2, Portraits of the 1890s," New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2002, no. 274.

Ormond, Richard, "John Singer Sargent: paintings, drawings, watercolors," New York: Harper & Row, 1970.

Illustration:    

Ormond, Richard and Elaine Kilmurray, "John Singer Sargent: complete paintings; volume 2, Portraits of the 1890s," New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2002, pg. 53.

Ormond, Richard, "John Singer Sargent: paintings, drawings, watercolors," New York: Harper & Row, 1970., pl. 74.

Joe Jefferson as Rip Van Winkle, (painting).

Medium:    

Oil.

Dimensions:    

10 1/4 x 7 1/2 in. (cm. 26.0 x 19.1)

Subject:    

Portrait male -- Jefferson, Joseph -- Bust

Performing Arts -- Theater -- Performer

Owner:    

University of Georgia, Georgia Museum of Art, 90 Carlton Street, Athens, Georgia 30602

References:    

Owner, 1975.

Illustration:    

Image on file.

Control Number:    

IAP 10420113