Artwork Details
Artist
Creation Date
Materials
Object Types
Dimensions
14-5/8 x 20-1/2 in. (sheet) 23-1/8 x 28-1/4 x 1-3/16 in. (framed)
Mark Description
Inscribed and signed in ink, lower right: to my friend Mrs. Hunter | John S. Sargent
Accession Number
Credit Line
Mary B. Milliken Fund
Copyright
Collection
Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
Color Palette
Provenance
Given by the artist to Mrs. Charles Hunter, Hill Hall near Epping, England; (M. Knoedler and Co., New York, New York); purchased by the John Herron Art Institute, Indianapolis, Indiana, now the Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, in 1944 (44.52).
Gallery Labels
Sargent, born to American parents in Italy, resided most of his life in England. Elected Royal Academician as a portrait painter, Sargent also excelled in watercolors, of which he practiced exclusively on his annual vacations in Venice from 1886.
"Sargent drew and painted, the accidental things that caught his eye, the queer and irregular shapes of dark gondolas on the canals . . . the flash of light on the facades of palaces and the reflections on the glittering water."
-Martin Hardie, 1930
Sargent gave this watercolor to his friend Mrs. Charles Hunter, the wife of an English coal magnate, and did so frequently "until it seems her house is almost overflowing."
Exhibition History
Exhibition Name
Venue
Dates
Indianapolis Museum of Art
February 16, 2008 - July 13, 2008
Indianapolis Museum of Art Columbus Gallery
August 9, 1998 - October 4, 1998
Indianapolis Museum of Art
July 2, 1989 - August 20, 1989
Loan to the Herman C. Krannert Graduate School of Industrial Administration
April 26, 1965 - August 27, 1965
John Herron Art Institute and Museum
October 4, 1959 - October 25, 1959
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