En route pour la pêche (Setting Out to Fish), 1878

Not on View

Medium

pen and brown ink over graphite on wove paper

Dimensions

sheet: 11.43 × 17.78 cm (4 1/2 × 7 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Gift of Irving Moskovitz)

Accession Number

2015.19.2611

Artists / Makers

John Singer Sargent (artist) American, 1856 - 1925

Image Use

This image is in the public domain.
Read our full Open Access policy for images .

Inscription

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]

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

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Moskovitz, Irving

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.