Katherine Pratt 
John Singer Sargent -- American painter 
1890
Peters Corporation, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Oil on canvas
101.6 x 76.20 cm (40 x 30 in.)
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Three-quarter-length seated portrait of Katharine Chase Pratt (1875-1942) wearing a white dress. Her left hand is on her hip and her right hand is on her chest with one finger playing with her beaded necklace. The backdrop consists of a landscape with a dark tree.


Katherine Chase Pratt 
1890

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Provenance:    
Formerly in the collection of Pratt, Frederick Sumner, until 1924.
Pratt, Katharine,
Morgan, Vincent,
Morgan, Vincent, Mrs.,
Coe Kerr Gallery, New York, New York 1987.


Exhibitions:    
World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893.
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Sixty Fourth Annual Exhibition, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1894-1895.


Remarks:    
Probably exhibited at the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893 as no. 880 ("Portrait") and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts 64th Annual Exhibition in 1894-1895 as no. 5 ("Portrait").

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. 254.
McKibbin, David, "Sargent's Boston," Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, 1956.
Central Massachusetts BIAP Survey, 1975.


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. 40.
 
SIRIS # IAP 71771522 
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