Lot Essay
Wilfrid and Jane de Glehn spent the month of October 1907 at the
Villa Torlonia in Frascati, Italy. Here they met John Singer Sargent
and his two sisters, Emily Sargent and Eliza Wedgwood. The early days of the friendship between Sargent and de Glehn, which would last a
lifetime, were recorded in the well-known painting by Sargent entitled The Fountain, Villa Torlonia, Frascati in the Art Institute of Chicago which depicts Wilfrid and Jane painting out-of-doors. The Olive Grove was most likely painted during this October sojourn in
1907, under the warm sunshine of an Indian summer outside of Rome.
Villa Torlonia in Frascati, Italy. Here they met John Singer Sargent
and his two sisters, Emily Sargent and Eliza Wedgwood. The early days of the friendship between Sargent and de Glehn, which would last a
lifetime, were recorded in the well-known painting by Sargent entitled The Fountain, Villa Torlonia, Frascati in the Art Institute of Chicago which depicts Wilfrid and Jane painting out-of-doors. The Olive Grove was most likely painted during this October sojourn in
1907, under the warm sunshine of an Indian summer outside of Rome.