Object details
Object number
ARC.003948
Creator(s)
Sarah Choate Sears
(Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1858 - 1935, West Gouldsboro, Maine)
Title
John Singer Sargent Drawing Ethel Barrymore
Date
1903
Medium
Platinum print
Dimensions
22.5 x 14.5 cm (8 7/8 x 5 11/16 in.)
Provenance
Gift from Sarah Choate Sears to Isabella Stewart Gardner on 6 December 1920.
Commentary
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Bibliography
Christina Nielsen (ed.). Sargent on Location: Gardner's First Artist-in-Residence. Exh. cat. (Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 2018), p. 15, fig. 3.
Richard Ormond. John Singer Sargent: Portraits in Charcoal. (New York City, The Morgan Library & Museum and the National Portrait Gallery, 2019) pp. 35, fig. 9.
Diana Seave Greenwald and Erica Hirshler, "The Story Behind John Singer Sargent's Portait of Isabella Stewart Gardner," Inside the Collection (blog), Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 30 November 2023, https://www.gardnermuseum.org/blog/story-behind-john-singer-sargents-portrait-isabella-stewart-gardner
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