Venetian Glass Workers

1. Friedrich Wilhelm Carl Bechstein, Berlin, by 1886. Hotel Drouot, Paris, by 1895. Charles Hovey Pepper, (Paris?), by 1896. Macbeth Gallery, New York, by 1911; Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson, Chicago, 1912; by descent to Mrs. Martn A. Ryerson, Chicago, 1932; bequeathed to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1933.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Art Institute of Chicago, <em>The Friends of American Art Loan Exhibition of American Paintings at the Art Institute of Chicago</em>, Jan. 8–28, 1914, cat. 1.
• Boston Museum of Fine Arts, <em>Memorial Exhibition of the Works of the Late John Singer Sargent</em>, Nov. 3–Dec. 27, 1925, cat. 14.
• Art Institute of Chicago, <em>A Century of Progress</em>, June 1–Nov. 1, 1933, cat. 480.
• Art Institute of Chicago, <em>A Century of Progress</em>, June 1–Nov. 1, 1934, cat. 411.
• Appleton, WI, Lawrence College, New Alexander Gymnasium, <em>Loan Exhibition of American Paintings at Lawrence College</em>, Sept. 22–Oct. 4, 1937, cat. 6.
• San Francisco, Golden Gate International Exposition, <em>Historical American Paintings</em>, Feb. 18–Oct. 29, 1939, cat. 20.
• WI, Milwaukee Art Institute, <em>Nineteenth Century American Masters</em>, Feb. 20–Mar. 28, 1948, no. 36.
• 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, <em>The Private World of John Singer Sargent</em>, Apr. 18–June 14, 1964, cat. 15; Cleveland Museum of Art, July 7–Aug. 16; Worcester Art Museum, MA, Sept. 17–Nov. 1; Utica, NY, Munson–Williams–Proctor Institute, Nov. 15, 1964–Jan. 3, 1965.
• Dayton Art Institute, OH, <em>American Expatriate Painters of the Late Nineteenth Century</em>, Dec. 4, 1976–Jan. 16, 1977, cat. 43, pl. 24; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Feb. 4–Mar. 20, 1977; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Apr. 12–May 29, 1977.
• Albi, France, Musée Toulouse–Lautrec, </em>Trésors Impressionnistes du Musée de Chicago</em>, June 27–Aug. 31, 1980, 63 (ill.)
• New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, <em>John Singer Sargent</em>, Oct. 1986–Jan. 1987, no cat. no.

• William Howe Downes, <em>John S. Sargent: His Life and Work</em> (Little, Brown and Company, 1925), 144, ill. facing p. 88.
• Robert B. Harshe, <em>A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection</em> (Art Institute of Chicago, 1925), 163, cat. 2197, <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/2027/gri.ark:/13960/s2hxd115k60">https://hdl.handle.net/2027/gri.ark:/13960/s2hxd115k60</a>.
• Evan Charteris, <em>John Sargent</em> (Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1927), 282.
• Charles Merrill Mount, <em>John Singer Sargent: A Biography</em> (W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1955), 445, no. K8220, 1969 ed. p. 463.
• Richard Ormond, <em>John Singer Sargent: Paintings, Drawings, Watercolors</em> (Harper & Row, 1970), 30.
• Margaretta M. Lovell, “American Artists in Venice, 1860–1920,” <em>Antiques</em> 127 (April 1985): 864–9.
• James N. Wood and Katharine C. Lee, <em>Masterpiece Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago</em> (Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, 1988).
• Margaretta M. Lovell, <em>A Visitable Past: Views of Venice by American Artists, 1860–1915</em> (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1989), 77, 79, 80 (ill.), fig. 91.
• Hugh Honour and John Fleming, <em>The Venetian Hours of Henry James, Whistler and Sargent</em> (Boston, Toronto, London: Little, Brown and Company, 1991), 66, color ill.
• 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).
• 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. 32.
• Cheryll L. May, <em>A Seamless Web: Transatlantic Art in the Nineteenth Century</em>, ed. Marian Wardle (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014), 173 (ill.).

The Fountain, Villa Torlonia, Frascati, Italy

Art Institute of Chicago

Mrs. George Swinton (Elizabeth Ebsworth)

Art Institute of Chicago

Madame Paul Escudier (Louise Lefevre)

Art Institute of Chicago

Life Study (Study of an Egyptian Girl)

Art Institute of Chicago

Thistles

Art Institute of Chicago

Portrait of Charles Deering

Art Institute of Chicago

Mrs. Charles Gifford Dyer (Mary Anthony)

Art Institute of Chicago

An Artist at His Easel

Art Institute of Chicago

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