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Street in Venice
John Singer Sargent1882
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
Washington, DC, United States
Details
- Title: Street in Venice
- Creator: John Singer Sargent
- Date Created: 1882
- Physical Dimensions: overall: 45.1 x 53.9 cm (17 3/4 x 21 1/4 in.) framed: 65.41 × 76.2 × 7.62 cm (25 3/4 × 30 × 3 in.)
- Provenance: Purchased 30 January 1888 by Elizabeth Chanler, Boston, at the St. Botolph Club Exhibition; given by her to Stanford White [1853-1906], New York, for professional services;[1] his wife, Mrs. Bessie Smith White [d. 1950], New York; their son, Lawrence Grant White [1887-1956], St. James, Long Island, New York; his wife, Mrs. Laura Astor Chanler White, St. James, Long Island, New York; purchased 1962 by NGA. [1] (This note does not appear in the provenance published in the 1998 NGA systematic catalogue entry on the painting.) The early part of the provenance comes from letters and notes in NGA curatorial files. However, Richard Ormond and Elaine Kilmurray, in their Sargent chronology for late October 1887, cite the following: "Stanford White hosts a dinner at which Sargent is guest of honor. Sargent offers [James Carroll] Beckwith his choice of two Venetian studies as a wedding gift. Beckwith chooses _Venetian Bead Stringers_ (Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo), and Sargent gives _A Street in Venice_ (National Gallery of Art, Washington DC) to Stanford White." (See Ormond and Kilmurray, _John Singer Sargent: The Early Portraits_, New Haven and London, 1998: xvii.)
- Rights: CC0
- Medium: oil on wood
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