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JOHN SINGER SARGENT, R.A. (AMERICAN, 1856-1925)

Lot 28
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Lot 28 | JOHN SINGER SARGENT, R.A. (AMERICAN, 1856-1925)
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£ 400 000 – 600 000
JOHN SINGER SARGENT, R.A. (AMERICAN, 1856-1925)
Hall of the Grand Council, Doge's Palace, Venice
signed 'John S. Sargent' (lower left)
oil on canvas
20 ¼ x 28 in. (51.5 x 71.1 cm.)
Painted circa 1898.




Provenance

Possibly, given by the artist to
Mrs Robert Mathias (Ena Wertheimer), from whom purchased by
Henry Lascelles, 6th Earl of Harewood (1882-1947), by 1925, and by descent in the family.



Literature

T. Borenius, 'Old Master Drawings in the Collection of Viscount Lascelles', Apollo, April 1925, vol. I, no. 4, p. 192, illustrated as frontispiece.
Exhibition of Works by the Late John S. Sargent, R.A., London, 1926, p. 83 as 'Interior of the Palazzo Ducale, Venice'
Illustrations of the Sargent Exhibition Royal Academy 1926, London, 1926, p. 53.
W.H. Downes, John S. Sargent: His Life and Work, London, 1926, p. 372, as 'Interior of Ducal Palace, Venice'.
T. Borenius, Catalogue of the Pictures and Drawings at Harewood House and Elsewhere in the Collection of The Earl of Harewood K.G., G.C.V.O., D.S.O, Oxford (Privately Printed), 1936, p. 175, dated 1905, pl. LXIV.
C.M. Mount, John Singer Sargent: A Biography, New York, 1955, p. 448, no. K042, dated 1904, as 'Interior of the Ducal Palace, Venice'; 1957 edition, p. 358, no. K042; 1969 edition, p. 470, no. K082.
H. Honour and J. Fleming, The Venetian Hours of Henry James, Whistler and Sargent, London, 1991, illustrated p. 108, as 'Interior of the Doge's Palace, 1898'.
D. Seldin Janis in W. Adelson et al., Sargent Abroad: Figures and Landscapes, New York, 1997, p. 184, illustrated pl. 179, dated 1898, as 'Interior of the Doge's Palace'.
E. Hirschler in G. de Appolonia et al., Gondola Days, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, exh. cat., Boston, 2004, p. 163, illustrated fig. 116, dated 1898, as 'Interior of the Doge's Palace'.
M. Zorzi in W. Adelson et al., Sargent's Venice, New Haven and London, 2006, p. 148, illustrated p. 149, fig. 154, dated 1898, as 'Interior of the Doge's Palace'.
M. Zorzi in W. Adelson et al., Sargent and Venice, Milan, 2007, p. 100, illustrated p. 47.
R. Ormond & E. Kilmurray, John Singer Sargent: Venetian Figures and Landscapes, 1898-1913, Complete Paintings, New Haven, 2009, vol. VI, pp. 63-5, 231, illustrated p. 64, no. 1042.



Exhibited

London, Royal Academy, Exhibition of Works by the Late John S. Sargent, R.A., Winter Exhibition, 14 January - 13 March 1926, no. 575, as 'Interior of the Palazzo Ducale, Venice'.
Artist:John Singer Sargent (1856 - 1925)
Applied technique:Oil, Painted
Art style:Impressionism
Place of origin:Northern Europe, Europe, United Kingdom
Auction house category:Paintings
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