Object details

Accession number

P30w1

Dimension Notes

Frame: 225.43 x 116.21 cm (88 3/4 x 45 3/4 in.)

Provenance

Isabella Stewart Gardner purchased from John Singer Sargent, 6 February 1888 for $3,000.

Marks

Signed (upper left): John S. Sargent
Dated (upper right): 1888

Bibliography

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“Notes, Records, Comments.” Gardner Museum Calendar of Events 7, no. 39 (24 May 1964), p. 2. (excerpting Charles Merrill Mount, pp. 132-34)
Philip Hendy. European and American Paintings in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1974), pp. 222-24.
Doreen Bolger Burke. "Astarte: Sargent's Study for The Pagan Gods Mural in the Boston Public Library." Fenway Court (1976), p.19, no. 10.
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David Park Curry. "Never Complain, Never Explain: Elsie de Wolfe and the Art of Social Change." Cultural Leadership in America, Art Matronage and Patronage. Fenway Court, vol. 27 (Boston, 1997), pp. 52-78, no. 4.
Anne Higonnet. "Private Museums, Public Leadership: Isabella Stewart Gardner and the Art of Cultural Authority." Cultural Leadership in America, Art Matronage and Patronage. Fenway Court, vol. 27 (Boston, 1997), pp. 79-92, no. 2.
Richard Ormond and Elaine Kilmurray. John Singer Sargent: Complete Paintings (New Haven, 1998), I, The Early Portraits, pp. 209-11, no. 206.
Alan Chong et al. (eds.) Eye of the Beholder: Masterpieces from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, (Boston, 2003), pp. 204-5.
Christine M. E. Guth. "Multisensorial Asia" in Alan Chong and Noriko Murai (eds.). Inventing Asia: American Perspectives Around 1900. Fenway Court, vol. 33 (Boston, 2014), pp. 92-93, fig. 7.
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