The West Portals of the Cathedral of Saint Gilles du Gard (Venetian Facade)
John Singer Sargent, American, 1856 - 1925
about 1879
Transparent and opaque watercolor and metallic gray paint [?] over graphite on cream wove paper
Sheet: 9 11/16 × 13 1/16 in. (24.6 × 33.1 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Robert J. Strasenburgh II 1942 Fund and the Julia L. Whittier Fund
W.988.54
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
19th century
Object Name
Watercolor
Research Area
Watercolor
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, in graphite, on verso [not in Sargent's hand]: Chairman of Christie / Sir Alec Martin / Leicester Gallery; [Gallery label on reverse of backing: two from Davis Galleries, New York (one an exhibition from 1969 listing the owner as Mrs Morton Baum), one from David Rasmus, Atlanta, Georgia (1987 accession number)].
Course History
ARTH 86, Senior Seminar in Theory and Method, Mary Coffey, Winter 2012
Exhibition History
Americans: 19th and 20th Century, Carol Taylor Art, Dallas, Texas, (no cat.), 1982.
David S. Ramus Ltd., Atlanta, Georgia, (no cat.), 1987.
From Copley to Dove: American Drawings and Watercolors at Dartmouth, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, (no cat.), March 11-May 28, 1989.
Marks of Distinction: Two Hundred Years of American Drawings and Watercolors from the Hood Museum of Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 29-May 29, 2005; Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, Michigan, June 24-September 11, 2005; National Academy Museum, New York City, New York, October 20-December 31, 2005.
Taittinger Gallery, New York, (no cat.), 1983.
Turn of the Century English Watercolors and Drawings, Davis Galleries, New York, (as "Venetian Facade;" no cat.), March 5-29, 1969.
Publication History
American Architects, "Drawing of the West Portal of St. Gilles du Gard," 15 April 1893
Barbara J. MacAdam, Marks of Distinction: Two Hundred Years of American Drawings and Watercolors from the Hood Museum of Art, Manchester, Vermont: Hudson Hills Press, 2005, pp. 102, 256, ill. p. 103, no. 24.
Provenance
The artist; bequeathed to Emily Sargent (his sister), 1925; possibly by descent to Guillaume Ormond (her nephew); to Mrs. Morton Baum, by 1969; to Shepherd Gallery, New York, by 1981; sold to Coe Kerr Gallery, New York, New York, 1981; sold to present collection, 1988.
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