Mrs.
William Russell Cooke
John
Singer
Sargent
-- American painter
1895
Private collection
Oil on canvas
89 x 68.6 cm (35 x 27 in.)
Inscription: (Upper left:) John S. Sargent signed
Jpg:
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Waist-length
portrait of Mrs. William Russell Cooke (1856-1914) standing before a
crimson red backdrop with her hands folded. She wears a black dress
with white lace collar, pendant, bracelet, and ring.
(SIRIS)
Note:
Provenance:
Formerly in the collection of Cooke, William
Russell, Mrs., until 1914.
Harker, O. A., Mrs, London, England until 1947.
Harker, O. A., until 1967/68.
Dilke, John, Sir,
Sotheby's, New York, New York Sale (Sept. 25, 1968), lot 32.
Spanierman Gallery, New York, New York
Bernard Danenberg Galleries, Inc., New York, New York 1975.
Meredith Long & Co., Houston, Texas
References:
Ormond, Richard and Elaine Kilmurray, "John Singer
Sargent: complete paintings; volume 2, Portraits of the 1890s," New
Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2002, no. 314.
McKibbin, David, "Sargent's Boston," Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, 1956.
Illustration:
Ormond, Richard and Elaine Kilmurray, "John Singer
Sargent: complete paintings; volume 2, Portraits of the 1890s," New
Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2002, pg. 97.
SIRIS # IAP 81690115
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