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The Fountain, Villa Torlonia, Frascati, Italy
John Singer Sargent · 1907
Provenance
Ownership history
- The artist, London; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1914.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Art Institute of Chicago, Twenty–fifth Annual Exhibition of American Oil Paintings and Sculpture, Nov. 5–Dec. 8, 1912, cat. 228.
- New York, Grand Central Art Galleries, Retrospective Exhibition of Important Works of John Singer Sargent, Feb. 23–Mar. 22, 1924, cat. 48.
- New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Memorial Exhibition of the Work of John Singer Sargent, Jan. 4–Feb. 14, 1926, cat. 50.
- Dallas, Fair Park Gallery, <em>1933 Exhibition Showing the Changes in Painting for the Last Hundred Years in Europe and America</em>, Oct. 7–22, 1933, cat. 76 (organized by the State Fair of Texas, Art Department).
- Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, June 1–Nov. 1, 1934, cat. 407.
- IN, South Bend Art Association, <em>American Painting in the Manner of the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries</em>, Feb. 10–Mar. 31, 1948, cat. 46.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Sargent, Whistler and Mary Cassatt, Jan. 14–Feb. 25, 1954; New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Mar. 25–May 23, 1954.
- Grand Rapids Art Museum, MI, Cassatt, Whistler, Sargent Exhibition, Sept. 15–Oct. 15, 1955, cat. 27.
- IL, Durand Art Institute, Lake Forest College, <em>A Century of American Painting: Masterpieces Loaned by The Art Institute of Chicago</em>, June 10–16, 1957, no. 16, as <em>The Fountain, Villa Torlonia, Frascati</em>.
- Art Institute of Chicago, <a href="https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/4071/two-centuries-of-american-art-1750-1950"><em>Two Centuries of American Art, 1750-1950</em></a>, Oct. 1, 1959–Jan. 10, 1960, no cat. [downloadable checklist available].
- Washington, DC, Corcoran Gallery of Art, The Private World of John Singer Sargent, Apr. 18–June 14, 1964, cat. 73; Cleveland Museum of Art, July 7–Aug. 16, 1964; Worcester Art Museum, MA, Sept. 17–Nov. 1, 1964; Utica, NY, Munson–Williams–Proctor Institute, Nov. 15, 1964–Jan. 3, 1965.
- New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, John Singer Sargent, Oct. 1, 1986–Jan. 4, 1987, cat. 149.
Literature
Published references
- Art Institute of Chicago, <em>General Catalogue of Sculpture, Paintings and Other Objects</em> (Art Institute of Chicago, 1910), 151, cat. 414 (ill.).
- Giselle D’Unger, “The Chicago Beautiful—Woman and Art The Vital Forces,” Fine Arts Journal 30 (Jan–June 1914): 302, ill.
- “Gifts of the Friends,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 7 (Apr. 1914): 158, ill.
- William M. R. French, <em>Art Institute of Chicago General Catalogue of Paintings, Sculpture and Other Objects in the Museum</em> (Art Institute of Chicago, 1914), 158, cat. 544 (ill.).
- The Art Institute of Chicago Handbook of Paintings and Drawings (Art Institute of Chicago, 1920), 45.
- Rose V.S. Berry, “John Singer Sargent: Some of His American Work,” Art and Archaeology 18 (Sept. 1924): 99 (ill.), 100.
- William Howe Downes, John S. Sargent: His Life and Work (Boston, 1925), 62, 227, ill. f. p. 272.
- A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection (Art Institute of Chicago, 1925), 152.
- A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection (Art Institute of Chicago, 1932), 170.
- State Fair of Texas, <em>Illustrated Catalogue, Art Department, State Fair of Texas, 1933: Exhibition Showing the Changes in Painting for the Last Hundred Years in Europe and America</em>, exh. cat. (Dorsey Co., 1933), 22, cat. 76.
- James Murray Haddow, <em>American Painting in the Manner of the Late Ninteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries</em>, exh. cat. (South Bend Art Association, 1948), n.p., cat. 46.
- Charles Merrill Mount, John Singer Sargent: A Biography (W.W. Norton, 1955), 449.
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