Pointy
(portrait of
Louise
Burckhardt's dog)
John Singer
Sargent
-- American painter
1885
Private
collection
Oil
on panel
27.3 x
21.6 cm (10.7"
x 8.5 in.)
inscribed
“Pointy”;
back of canvas inscribed “To my friend Louise from John S. Sargent.”
Mrs.
Kenneth D. Robertson
Jpeg: Christies,
Askart.com
Mrs.
Edward Burckhardt and her Daughter Louise
1885
From Christies
Pointy was a mongrel owned by John Singer Sargent's close friend Louise
Burckhardt. Edward and Elizabeth Burckhardt, and their two daughters,
Louise and Valerie, were expatriates living in Paris. Sargent painted
each member of the Burckhardt family between 1880-1885, and the present
picture was painted from sketches Sargent made during one of his
visits. It was a gift from the artist to the family along with a sketch
of Louise's sister and a half-length of her father done in 1880. A
romance between Sargent and Louise, perhaps initiated by Mrs
Burckhardt, developed in the early 1880s and there was talk of an
engagement, but prospects of marriage had disappeared by 
1883 and Louise married Roger Ackerley, an Englishman, in 1889.
Sargent's portrait of Louise from 1882 (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New
York) won considerable acclaim at the Paris Salon and added
immeasurably to Sargent's reputation.
(Christies)
Note:
Provenance:
Louise
Burckhardt, Paris;
by descent to Valerie Burckhardt;
by descent to Mrs. May Hadden Robertson, Ridgefield, Connecticut;
by descent to Kenneth D. Robertson, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, 1972;
by descent to William A. Robertson; Sotheby's, New York, 12 April 1991,
lot 70.
Literature:
R. Ormond and E.
Kilmurray, John Singer Sargent, The Early Portraits, New York,
1998, p. 65.
Sale:
Offered for
saile Christies Jun 22,
2007, New
York, Rockefeller Plaza. Lot # 0059, sale number 1932, estimated 60,000
- 80,000 U.S. dollars
Sold
Sotheby's; 4/12/91;
Lot 70;
$34,100
- See the year in
review 1885
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