JOHN SINGER SARGENT (1856-1925)
JOHN SINGER SARGENT (1856-1925)
JOHN SINGER SARGENT (1856-1925)
JOHN SINGER SARGENT (1856-1925)
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JOHN SINGER SARGENT (1856-1925)

Stamboul

Details
JOHN SINGER SARGENT (1856-1925)
Stamboul
watercolor and pencil on paper laid down on board
sheet, 12 ½ x 18 ½ in. (31.8 x 47 cm.);
overall, 15 x 22 in. (38.1 x 55.9 cm.)
Executed in 1891.
Provenance
The artist.
Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, Brooklyn, New York, acquired from the above, 1909.
M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York, acquired from the above, 1926.
Private collection, Boston, Massachusetts, acquired from the above, 1927.
By descent to the present owner.
Literature
W.H. Downes, John Singer Sargent: His Life and Work, London, 1926, p. 267.
E.W. Forbes, Annual Report, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1932-33, p. 16.
R. Ormond, E. Kilmurray, John Singer Sargent: Figures and Landscapes, 1883-1899, vol. V, New Haven, Connecticut, 2010, pp. 219, 250, 270, 275, 356, no. 951, illustrated.
Exhibited
(Possibly) London, Carfax & Co., Water Colours by John S. Sargent, R.A., June 1908, no. 44 (as Constantinople).
New York, M. Knoedler & Co., Inc.; Boston, Massachusetts, Boston Art Club, Water Color Drawings by John Singer Sargent and Edward Darley Boit, February 15-April 10, 1909, n.p., no. 81.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Carnegie Institute; Cleveland, Ohio, Cleveland Museum of Art; Toledo, Ohio, Toledo Museum of Art; Detroit, Michigan, The Detroit Museum of Art; Minneapolis, Minnesota, Minneapolis Institute of Arts; Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Milwaukee Art Institute; St. Louis, Missouri, City Art Museum of St. Louis; Rochester, New York, Memorial Art Gallery, Water Colors by Winslow Homer and John Singer Sargent, November 1, 1917-July 1, 1918, p. 8, no. 31.
Boston, Massachusetts, Museum of Fine Arts, Memorial Exhibition of the Works of the Late John Singer Sargent, November 3-December 27, 1925, p. 18, no. 18.
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Memorial Exhibition of the Work of John Singer Sargent, January 4-February 14, 1926, p. 13, no. 34, illustrated.
(Possibly) Washington, D.C., Corcoran Gallery of Art, Water Colors by John Singer Sargent, April 4-May 16, 1926.
Cleveland, Ohio, Cleveland Museum of Art, Fourth Exhibition of Watercolors and Pastels, February 16-March 14, 1927.
Omaha, Nebraska, The Art Institute of Omaha, Exhibition of Water Colors by Winslow Homer and John Singer Sargent, October 1-31, 1927, no. 11.
Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University, Fogg Art Museum, Loan Exhibition of Sargent Watercolors, May-June 1933, no. 16.
New York, Adelson Galleries, Sargent Abroad: Figures and Landscapes, November 7-December 13, 1997.

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Lot Essay

The present work depicts a view looking west toward Constantinople (modern-day Istanbul, Turkey), featuring the city's peninsula in the background and the Golden Horn at right. According to Richard Ormond and Elaine Kilmurray, "There are no precedents in Sargent's art for a panoramic view of this type." (John Singer Sargent: Figures and Landscapes, 1883-1899, vol. V, New Haven, Connecticut, 2010, p. 250)

The present work was initially owned by the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, now the Brooklyn Museum, New York.

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