Object details
Accession number
P3s21
Primary Creator
John Singer Sargent
(Florence, 1856 - 1925, London)
Full title
The Terrace at La Granja
Creation Date
1903-1904 (or 1912)
Provenance
Gift from John Singer Sargent to Mrs. Asher Wertheimer (Flora Joseph, d. 1922), wife of the well-known London art dealer.
Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner at auction from Anderson Galleries, New York on 6 February 1920 for $2,800, through American artist Louis Kronberg (1872–1965).
Marks
Inscribed (verso): To Mrs Wertheimer with the compliments of John Singer Sargent
[Recorded in the 1920 Anderson Galleries sale catalogue before the watercolor was laid down]
Dimensions
29.9 x 45.1 cm (11 3/4 x 17 3/4 in.)
Display Media
Watercolor on paper
Web Commentary
Isabella Stewart Gardner kept meticulous records of many of her acquisitions. In keeping with this legacy, object information is continually being reviewed, updated, and enriched in order to give greater access to the collection.
Permanent Gallery Location
Blue Room
Bibliography
Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), p. 29.
Philip Hendy. European and American Paintings in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1974), pp. 228-30.
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