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M. Hardie, Famous Water-Colour Painters: VII J.S. Sargent, R.A., R.W.S., London, 1930, pp. 1-6
In his introduction to Famous Water-Color Painters: VII J.S. Sargent, R.A., R.W.S., Martin Hardie wrote a summarization of John Singer Sargent's watercolor philosophy and technique: "of his water-colour work in general no one can speak with more authority than Mr. Adrian Stokes, who spent two long summers painting in his company. 'My own feeling about Sargent's water-colours,' writes Mr. Stokes, 'is that, invariably brilliant in execution, they usually record, with the utmost directness, something that had excited his admiration, or appealed to his artistic intelligence." (M. Hardie, p.5)
One subject that surely excited John Singer Sargent's admiration was that of a fountain. Sargent was fascinated by fountains and painted them in watercolor a great many times, either as the central focus of the work, or as an important element in a landscape. In all of these works, as in Villa Torlonia, Frascati, Sargent was able to quickly and spontaneously capture the fluidity and motion of the water as it poured out of the fountain, and at the same time, he was able to render the marvelous reflections and brilliance of color that the light and water provided.
This watercolor was painted in the early autumn of 1907 when Sargent painted a number of watercolors of fountains in and around the gardens of Rome. There are several other related watercolors and oils, perhaps most notably, Spanish Fountain, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Pulitzer Bequest, 1915), In a Medici Villa, The Brooklyn Museum, and Fountain, Villa Torlonia (an oil), The Chicago Art Institute.
This watercolor will be included in the catalogue raisonné being compiled by Richard L. Ormond and Elaine Kilmurray.
M. Hardie, Famous Water-Colour Painters: VII J.S. Sargent, R.A., R.W.S., London, 1930, pp. 1-6
In his introduction to Famous Water-Color Painters: VII J.S. Sargent, R.A., R.W.S., Martin Hardie wrote a summarization of John Singer Sargent's watercolor philosophy and technique: "of his water-colour work in general no one can speak with more authority than Mr. Adrian Stokes, who spent two long summers painting in his company. 'My own feeling about Sargent's water-colours,' writes Mr. Stokes, 'is that, invariably brilliant in execution, they usually record, with the utmost directness, something that had excited his admiration, or appealed to his artistic intelligence." (M. Hardie, p.5)
One subject that surely excited John Singer Sargent's admiration was that of a fountain. Sargent was fascinated by fountains and painted them in watercolor a great many times, either as the central focus of the work, or as an important element in a landscape. In all of these works, as in Villa Torlonia, Frascati, Sargent was able to quickly and spontaneously capture the fluidity and motion of the water as it poured out of the fountain, and at the same time, he was able to render the marvelous reflections and brilliance of color that the light and water provided.
This watercolor was painted in the early autumn of 1907 when Sargent painted a number of watercolors of fountains in and around the gardens of Rome. There are several other related watercolors and oils, perhaps most notably, Spanish Fountain, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Pulitzer Bequest, 1915), In a Medici Villa, The Brooklyn Museum, and Fountain, Villa Torlonia (an oil), The Chicago Art Institute.
This watercolor will be included in the catalogue raisonné being compiled by Richard L. Ormond and Elaine Kilmurray.