John Singer Sargent
1856 - 1925
STAIRCASE IN CAPRI (STUDY OF A STAIRCASE; STUDY OF A STAIRCASE, CAPRI)
Auguste Alexandre Hirsch, Paris, France
Madame Hirsch (his wife), 1912
M. Knoedler & Co., Paris, France and New York, 1914 (acquired from the above)
Dr. George Woodward, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1919 (acquired from the above)
Stanley Woodward (his son)
Ross Whittier
Constance Coleman
Alan Dillenberg
Ira Spanierman, New York, 1988
Pamela Harriman, Washington, D.C., 1990 (acquired from the above; sold: Sotheby's, New York, The Estate of Ambassador Pamela Harriman, May 19, 1997, lot 91, illustrated)
Acquired by the present owner at the above sale
New York, Knoedler Gallery, Exhibition of Paintings by the Late John Singer Sargent, November 1925, no. 13
Boston, Massachusetts, Museum of Fine Arts, Memorial Exhibition of the Works of the Late John Singer Sargent, November-December 1925, no. 1, p. 3 (as Study of a Staircase, dated 1874)
West Palm Beach, Florida, Norton Gallery and School of Art, In Nature's Way: American Landscape Painting of the Late 19th Century, February-April 1987, no. 62, pp. 11, 118, illustrated p. 106
London, Tate Gallery, Sargent, October 1998-January 1999, no. 6, pp. 61, 71, illustrated p. 70
William H. Downes, John S. Sargent: His Life and Work, Boston, Massachusetts, 1925, p. 261 (as Study of a Staircase)
Evan Charteris, John Sargent, London, England and New York, 1927, p. 280 (as dated 1874)
Charles Merrill Mount, John Singer Sargent: A Biography, London, England, 1955, no. K782, p. 442 (as Study of a Staircase, Capri, 1875)
Margaret C. Conrads, American Paintings and Sculpture at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, New York, 1990, p. 160
Carol Vogel, "A Sale of Pamela Harriman's Style and Taste, and the Result is a Proper Success," The New York Times, May 20, 1997, p. B3
Richard Ormond and Elaine Kilmurray, John Singer Sargent: Figures and Landscapes, 1874-1882, New Haven, Connecticut, 2006, vol. IV, no. 719, pp. 178, 401, illustrated