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JOHN SINGER SARGENT (1856-1925)

Lot 329
18.11.2025 00:00UTC -05:00
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ID 1508015
Lot 329 | JOHN SINGER SARGENT (1856-1925)
Estimate value
$ 70 000 – 100 000
JOHN SINGER SARGENT (1856-1925)
Angels in a Transept, Study after Goya
signed and inscribed 'John S. Sargent, after Goya to E.C.' (upper left)
oil on panel
13 ½ x 10 ¼ in. (34.3 x 26 cm.)
Painted in 1879




Provenance

Sir Evan Charteris, London (gift from the artist, then by descent).
Richard Thune, New York (circa 1994).
Private collection.
Richard Thune, New York (2006).
Adelson Galleries, New York.
Acquired from the above by the present owners, circa 2007.



Literature

W.H. Downes, John S. Sargent: His Life and Work, London, 1926, p. 368 (titled Study of Goya in an Arch at San Antonio, Madrid).
E. Charteris, John Sargent, London, 1927, p. 286 (titled Study of Goya (at San Antonio, Madrid)).
C.M. Mount, John Singer Sargent: A Biography, New York, 1969, p. 461, no. K7921 (titled Goya (from an Archway at San Antonio, Madrid)).
R. Ormond and E. Kilmurray, John Singer Sargent: Figures and Landscapes, 1874-1882, New Haven, 2006, vol. IV, pp. 197, 202, 226 and 407, no. 746 (illustrated in color, p. 223).



Exhibited

London, Royal Academy of Arts, Exhibition of Works by the Late John S. Sargent, R.A., January-March 1926, p. 75, no. 515 (titled Study of Goya in an Arch at San Antonio, Madrid).
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Sargent, Chase, Cassatt: Master Paintings from a Private Collection, July-September 2006.
Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art and Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Legion of Honor, Sargent and Spain, October 2022-May 2023, pp. 28, 225 and 242, no. 9 (illustrated in color, p. 40).
Montclair Art Museum, A Shared Love: Treasures of American Painting (1878-1919) from the Carol and Terry Wall Collection, May 2024-February 2025.
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