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John Singer Sargent · 1883–89
Provenance
Ownership history
- Artist's sale, Christie's, London, 24 and 27 July 1925, lot 198, sold to David Croal Thomson of Barbizon House, London; Charles Deering, Chicago; by descent to his daughter, Marion Deering (Mrs. Chauncey McCormick), 1927; by descent to her son Brooks McCormick, 1965; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1996.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Art Institute of Chicago, <a href="https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/2522/john-singer-sargent-and-chicago-s-gilded-age"><em>John Singer Sargent and Chicago’s Gilded Age</em></a>, July 1–Sept. 30, 2018, cat. 14.
Literature
Published references
- James N. Wood, <em>Impressionism and Post–Impressionism in the Art Institute of Chicago</em> (Art Institute of Chicago, 2000), 84.
- Judith A. Barter, et al., <em>American Arts at The Art Institute of Chicago: From Colonial Times to World War I</em> (Art Institute of Chicago, 1998), 322–325, cat. 170.
- Judith A. Barter, et al., <em>The Age of American Impressionism: Masterpieces from the Art Institute of Chicago</em> (Art Institute of Chicago, 2011), cat. 35.
- Annelise K. Madsen, et al., <em>John Singer Sargent and Chicago's Gilded Age</em>, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 2018), 10, 102, 155, 179, 203, cat. 14, fig. 133 (ill.).
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