En route pour la pêche (Setting Out to Fish)

1878

John Singer Sargent

Associated Names
John Singer Sargent

Artist, American, 1856 - 1925

This drawing depicts a group of people standing together, most of them facing left. There appear to be four women wearing dresses and shawls with head coverings, all holding baskets. There are also two children walking with them. More people can be seen in the distance on the right, next to what looks like a fence. The ground beneath the central group is covered with some reflective puddles, and in the distance on the left is what looks like a shoreline with small sailboats floating on the water. The sky above is cloudy.

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(unknown dealer, Paris, France); Irving Moskovitz, New York; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1976; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1983

  • John Singer Sargent: Drawings from the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, 1983, p. 51, no. 23, repro

1999

  • "Sketch Everything and Keep Your Curiosity Fresh": Sargent Drawings from the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1999

2009

  • Sargent and the Sea, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2009-2010, p. 109, fig. 149, repro

Bibliography

1878

  • Gazette des Beaux-Arts 18 (August 1878), p. 179.

1983

  • Simmons, Linda Crocker and with the assistance of Adrianne J. Humphrey, et al. American Drawings, Watercolors, Pastels, and Collages in the Collection of the Corcoran Gallery of Art. Washington, DC: Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1983: p. 105, no. 685.

Inscriptions

lower right in black ink: J.S. Sargent; upper left verso in graphite by unknown hand: peintre américaine / John Sauveur [sic] Sargent / 1858-1925 / né a Florence mort a Londres; upper right verso in graphite by unknown hand: Desmond / Sargent; center verso in partially erased graphite by unknown hand: [not deciphered]

Wikidata ID

Q64584092

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