Mrs. Frederick Mead
John Singer Sargent -- American painter  
c. 1893
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
Oil on canvas
67.9 x 51.8 cm (26 3/4 x 20 3/8 in.)
Inscription: (Upper right:) John S. Sargent signed
Accession Number: 1937.4002

 Jpg: .the-athenaeum
 

Waist-length seated portrait of Mrs. Frederick Mead (Mary Eliza Scribner 1822-1897) wearing a black dress and a purple cap.
(SIRIS)


Note: 

Provenance:    
Formerly in the collection of Mead, Frederick, Mrs., until 1897.
Abbey, E. A., Mrs., until 1931.
Abbey, Edwin Austin,

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. 294.
"A checklist of American paintings at Yale University," New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery, 1982.

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. 73.
Yale University Art Gallery, Coll. Cat., Yale U., 1982, #1263, p. 121.

SIRIS # IAP 07261488

 

 
 

 
Created 10/10/2008

   

 

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