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.