Campo dei Frari, Venice, c. 1880

Not on View

Medium

watercolor over graphite on wove paper

Dimensions

sheet: 25.08 × 35.72 cm (9 7/8 × 14 1/16 in.)

Credit Line

Corcoran Collection (Bequest of Mabel Stevens Smithers)

Accession Number

2014.136.195

Artists / Makers

John Singer Sargent (artist) American, 1856 - 1925

Image Use

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Inscription

lower right in ink: John S. Sargent

Provenance

Estate of Henry Schlesinger; Mrs. A. H. Berly; (Christie's, New York, March 3, 1913, lot 33); (Colnaghi and Obach, New York, 1913); (Robinson and Farr, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1913); (Macbeth Gallery, New York); Mabel Stevens Smithers, Greenwich, Connecticut, 1925; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1952; acquired 2014 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Colnaghi & Co., Ltd., P. & D.
Corcoran Gallery of Art
Macbeth Galleries
Robinson & Farr
Smithers, Mabel Stevens

Exhibition History

1881: The Salon, Paris, France, 1881, no. 3413 (or 3414), as "Vue de Venise"

1925: [exhibition title unknown], Macbeth Galleries, New York, 1925, no. 18, as "Piazza, Venice"

1983: John Singer Sargent: Drawings from the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, 1983, p. 54, no. 26, repro

1986: John Singer Sargent, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois, 1986-1987, p. 213, no. 174, repro

1999: "Sketch Everything and Keep Your Curiosity Fresh": Sargent Drawings from the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1999, fig. 2, repro

2003: Whistler and His Circle in Venice, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2003, p. 121, no. 89, repro

2009: John Singer Sargent in the Corcoran Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2009-2010

2015: Focus on the Corcoran: Works on Paper, 1860-1990, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2015.

Bibliography

1980: Adelson, Warren. John Singer Sargent: His Own Work. New York: Coe Kerr Gallery, 1980, p. unknown, as "Venetian Piazza"

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. 688.

1991: Honour, Hugh, and John Fleming. The Venetian Hours of Henry James, Whistler, and Sargent. London: Walker Books, 1991, p. 102.