En route pour la pêche (Setting Out to Fish)
1878
Artist, American, 1856 - 1925

Artwork overview
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Medium
pen and brown ink over graphite on wove paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet: 11.43 × 17.78 cm (4 1/2 × 7 in.)
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Accession
2015.19.2611
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