Head of an
Italian Girl
John Singer
Sargent
-- American painter
1878
Private
collection
Oil on canvas
45.72 x 31.8 cm (18 x 15 in)
Inscribed and dated: to my cousin Kitty Austin / John S. Sargent
1878
Jpg: adelsongalleries
/ webshots
Inscribed to
Catherine (Kitty) Austin who an older sister to Mary Turner
Austin whom Sargent painted the same year. Both cousins to
John and were two of four siblings in the Austin family.
Ormond and Kilmurray think that maybe the model for this painting might
not have been Italian girl at all, but possibly a Parisian model.
(Kilmurray
and Ormond; Early Portraits (Complete Paintings, Vol 1)
Mary Turner Austin
1878
(Sister to "Kitty" Austin)
Note:
I believe the
painting had previously been sold through Adelson Galleries
Ex-collections:
The
artist, to his cousin
Catherine Austin, to her
nephew
Elbridge Gerry Greene
Vose Galleries, Boston, 1942
Dr. William Spickers, 1945,
to his daughter
Private collection, to the
present
Bibliography:
John Singer Sargent
Catalogue Raisonné, London and New Haven: Yale University Press,
1997, no. 13, illustrated p. 3
Exhibitions
Great
Expectations: John Singer Sargent Painting Children; 2004-2005
- See the year in
review 1878
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