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John Singer Sargent American, 1856 - 1925 Street in Venice, 1882 oil on wood Overall: 45.1 x 53.9 cm (17 3/4 x 21 1/4 in.) framed: 65.4 x 76.2 x 6.4 cm (25 3/4 x 30 x 2 1/2 in.) Gift of the Avalon Foundation 1962.4.1 |
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Provenance
Purchased 30 January 1888 by Elizabeth Chanler, Boston, at St. Botolph Club Exhibition; given by her to Stanford White [1853-1906], New York, for professional services;[1] his wife, Mrs. Bessie Smith White [d. 1950], New York; their son, Lawrence Grant White [1887-1956], St. James, Long Island, New York; his wife, Mrs. Laura Astor Chanler White, St. James, Long Island, New York; purchased 1962 by NGA.
[1] (This note does not appear in the provenance published in the NGA systematic catalogue entry on the painting.) The early part of the provenance comes from letters and notes in NGA curatorial files. However, Richard Ormond and Elaine Kilmurray, in their Sargent chronology for late October 1887, cite the following: "Stanford White hosts a dinner at which Sargent is guest of honor. Sargent offers [James Carroll] Beckwith his choice of two Venetian studies as a wedding gift. Beckwith chooses Venetian Bead Stringers (Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo), and Sargent gives A Street in Venice (National Gallery of Art, Washington DC) to Stanford White." (See Ormond and Kilmurray, John Singer Sargent: The Early Portraits, New Haven and London, 1998: xvii.)
Associated Names
- Chanler, Elizabeth
- White, Bessie Smith
- White, Lawrence Grant
- White, Lawrence Grant, Mrs.
- White, Stanford
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