Object details
Accession number
P11e14
Primary Creator
John Singer Sargent
(Florence, 1856 - 1925, London)
Full title
Rio di San Salvatore, Venice
Creation Date
1906-1911
Provenance
Presumably a gift from John Singer Sargent to Mrs. Henry Seymour Trower (Juliet Rosetta Salomons).
Purchased by the art dealer David Croal Thomson (1855–1930) of Barbizon House, London from the Trower auction, Sotheby's, 20 July 1921, lot 196. (as "A Side Canal, Venice")
Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from Frank W. Bayley, Copley Gallery, Boston on 24 October 1923 for $2,500.
Marks
Signed (upper right): John S. Sargent
Dimensions
25.1 x 35.5 cm (9 7/8 x 14 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
Macknight Room
Bibliography
Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), p. 75. (as "Rio Delle Due Torri, Venice")
David McKibbin. "Sargent's Water-Colours of Venice at Fenway Court." Fenway Court (1970), pp. 19-25, fig 8.
Philip Hendy. European and American Paintings in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1974), pp. 230-31.
Elizabeth Anne McCauley et al. Gondola Days: Isabella Stewart Gardner and the Palazzo Barbaro Circle. Exh. cat. (Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 2004), p. 172, fig. 123.
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