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JOHN SINGER SARGENT (1856-1925)
The Façade of La Salute, Venice
signed 'John S. Sargent' (lower right)
watercolor, gouache and pencil on paperboard
14 1/2 x 21 1/4 in. (36.8 x 54 cm.)
Executed circa 1903
Provenance
Ferdinand Joseph Conway Wertheimer (by 1925).
Mrs. Joan Young Conway (wife of the above, by descent, 1953).
David Mathias (nephew of the above, gift from the above).
Kay Mathias (wife of the above, 1992).
Katherine Mathias (Mrs. Edward Holden), Kent (daughter of the above).
Private collection, New York (2001).
Acquired from the above by the late owner, 2012.
Literature
“Royal Society of Painters in Water Colours” in Globe, 9 April 1904.
“Royal Water-Colour Society Centenary Exhibition” in Morning Post, 9 April 1904, p. 5.
“The Royal Society of Painters in Water Colours” in Observer, 10 April 1904.
B.N., “Royal Society of Water-Colour Painters” in Westminster Gazette, 11 April 1904.
E.G.H., “Artistic Centenary; Hundredth Exhibition of Royal Water Colour Society, The Spring Show” in Daily Mail, 12 April 1904.
"Royal Society of Painters in Water Colours. The Centenary Exhibition" in The Manchester Guardian, 12 April 1904, p. 6.
“Royal Society of Painters in Water Colour” in Daily Telegraph, 13 April 1904, p. 11.
“The Centenary Exhibition of the Old Water-Colour Painters” in Guardian, 20 April 1904.
A.M., “The Water Colour Society” in Pall Mall Gazette, 18 April 1904, p. 2.
N. Wilkinson, Yvette in Venice and Titania’s Palace, Oxford, England, 1923 (illustrated in color on the frontispiece; titled The Steps of Santa Maria della Salute).
W. Adelson, et. al., Sargent Abroad: Figures and Landscapes, New York, 1997, pp. 180 and 204-205 (illustrated in color, p. 204, pl. 210; titled On the Steps of the Salute and dated circa 1906).
W. Adelson and E. Oustinoff, “John Singer Sargent’s Venice: On the Canals” in The Magazine Antiques, November 2006, vol. 170, no. 5, pp. 134 and 137 (illustrated in color, p. 134, fig. 3).
R. Ormond and E. Kilmurray, John Singer Sargent Venetian Figures and Landscapes, 1898-1913, Complete Paintings, New Haven, 2009, vol. VI, pp. 12, 49, 54, 60, note 167; pp. 71-72, 76-77, 141, 178, 182, note 1 and pp. 195 and 233, no. 1032 (illustrated in color, p. 77).
Exhibited
London, Royal Society of Painters in Water Colours, Centenary Exhibition, 1904, no. 107.
London, Claridge Gallery, Loan Exhibition of Water Colours by the Late John S. Sargent, R.A., July 1925, no. 7 (titled The Steps of the Salute, Venice).
New York, Coe Kerr Gallery, John Singer Sargent His Own Work, May-June 1980, no. 32 (illustrated; titled A Scene in Venice and dated circa 1907).
New York, Coe Kerr Gallery and Boston Athenaeum, Americans in Venice: 1879-1913, October-December 1983, p. 54, no. 36 (illustrated in color; titled A Scene in Venice and dated circa 1906).
New York, Adelson Galleries, Sargent Abroad: An Exhibition, November-December 1997 (illustrated in color, pl. 14; titled On the Steps of the Salute and dated circa 1906).
Ferrara, Palazzo dei Diamanti, Sargent e l’Italia, September 2002-January 2003, pp. 275 and 290-291, no. 54 (illustrated in color, p. 291; titled Sui gradini della Salute and dated circa 1906).
Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Denver Art Museum, Sargent and Italy, February-September 2003, pp. 41 and 196 (illustrated in color, p. 41; titled On the Steps of the Salute (On the Grand Canal) and dated circa 1906).
Boston, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and Venice, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, Gondola Days, April-December 2004, pp. 257 and 275 (illustrated in color, p. 257, fig. 205; titled On the Steps of the Salute, Venice and dated 1906).
New York, Adelson Galleries, Sargent’s Venice, January-March 2007, pp. 2-3, 99 and 103-104 (illustrated in color on the frontispiece, pp. 2-3, fig. 97; titled On the Steps of the Salute and dated circa 1904).
Venice, Correr Museum, Sargent and Venice, March-July 2007, pp. 67 and 76 (illustrated in color, p. 67; titled On the Steps of the Salute and dated circa 1904).
New York, Michael Altman Fine Art & Advisory Services, John Singer Sargent An Exhibition of Over Forty Paintings, Drawings, and Watercolors, Fall 2013, no. 12 (illustrated in color).
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