Lot 68
  • 68

John Singer Sargent 1856-1925

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Description

  • John Singer Sargent
  • Madame Belleroche
  • stamped with the artist's estate stamp J.S.S. prior to lining; also inscribed Sketch of a Head/To be returned to London on the stretcher

  • oil on canvas
  • 21 3/4 by 18 in.
  • (55.2 by 45.7 cm)
  • Painted circa 1884.

Provenance

Sale: Christie, Manson & Woods, London, England, Pictures and Water Colour Drawings by J.S. Sargent, R.A. and Works by Other Artists, July  24, 1925, lot 147
Francis Howard, Esq. (acquired at the above sale; sold: Christie's, London, England, Francis Howard Collection, November 26, 1956)
Julius Weitzner Gallery, New York
Acquired by the present owners from the above, 1962

Exhibited

London, England, National Gallery, British Painting Since Whistler, March-August 1940, no. 574
London, England, Royal Academy of Arts, 1940
Washington, D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art; Cleveland, Ohio, Cleveland Museum of Art; Worcester, Massachusetts, Worcester Art Museum; Utica, New York, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, The Private World of John Singer Sargent, April 1964-January 1965, no. 30
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, Lehigh University; Reading, Pennsylvania, Reading Public Museum and Art Gallery; Scranton, Pennsylvania, Everhart Museum, June-July 1971 
Collegeville, Pennsylvania, Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art at Ursinus College, A Passion for Art: Selections from the Berman Collection, The Inaugural Exhibition, October-December 1989, p. 61, illustrated in color

Literature

David McKibben, Sargent's Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, 1956, p. 84