Painting Index 1878

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	Low Tide at Cancale Harbor 1878 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Oil on canvas 48.58 x 28.26 cm (19 1/8 x 11 1/8 in.) Zoe Oliver Sherman Collection 22.646

	A Nude Boy on a Beach 1878 Tate Gallery, London Oil on wood 26.8 x 35.1 cm Bequeathed by John Tillotson 1984

	Boy on the Beach, Capri c. 1878 Private collection Oil on panel 13 1/2 x 10 1/4 in

	Breton Girl with a Basket Sketch for "Oyster Gatherers of Cancale" 1878 ? Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago, IL Oil on canvas 48.3 x 29.2 cm (19 x 11 1/2 in.) Frame: 60.6 x 42.9 cm (23 7/8 x 16 7/8 in.) Signed: Lower right: John S. Sargent Daniel J. Terra Collection, 1999.129

	Woman Carrying Basket, for "Oyster Gatherers of Cancale" c. 1878 Fogg Art Museum, Boston Graphite on off-white wove paper 15 x 9 cm., actual inscription: l.l., graphite: J. S. 218a Gift of Miss Emily Sargent and Mrs. Francis Ormond in memory of their brother, John Singer Sargent, 1931.87.B

	Child (study for Oyster Gatherers) 1877-78 Metropolitan Museum, New York Graphite on off-white wove paper 21 x 12.7 cm (8 1/4 x 5 in.)

	Oyster Gatherers of Cancale (sketch) 1878 Natasha Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Oil on canvas 41 x 61 cm (16 1/8 x 24 in)

	Oyster Gatherers of Cancale aka (En Route pour la Péche) 1878 Natasha Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Oil on canvas 96.8 x 123.2 cm (31 1/8 x 48 1/2 in.) Inscribed lr 'John S. Sargent./Paris 1878'

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	Beach at Capri 1878 Palace of the Legion of Honor San Fransisco, CA Oil on panel 26 x 34.9 cm (10 1/4 x 13 3/4) Bequest of Frederick J. Hellman to the California Palace of the Legion of Honor 1965.32 (Zoomable image at link)

	Young_Man_in_Reverie 1878 Private collection Oil 76.2 x 61 cm (30 x 24 in.)

	A Capriote 1878 Natasha Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Oil on canvas 76.83 x 63.18 cm (30 1/4 x 24 7/8 in) Bequest of Helen Swift Neilson 46.10. (Caricature of Sargent's painting)

	Capri Girl (Dans Les Olivier) 1878-1879? Private collection Oil 30.5 x 25 in. (A second copy was later painted by Sargent and exhibited at the Paris Salon in '79. This may have been the one painted in '79)

	View of Capri 1878 Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn. Oil on academy board 10 x 13 1/4 in. Edwin Austin Abbey Memorial Collection

	Capri 1878 Natasha The Warner Collection of Gulf States Paper Corporation, Tuscaloosa, Alabama Oil on canvas 50.8 x 63.5 cm (20 x 25 in.) Inscribed ll "to my friend Fanny/John S. Sargent". lr "Capri 1878" (See Rosina-Capri)

	Rosina-Capri 1878 Private collection Oil on canvas 19.7 x 25.5 in. Signed

	Rosina 1878 Private collection Oil on panel 13.785 x 6.75 in.

	Stringing Onions 1878 Private collection Watercolor on paper 43.18 x 33.02 cm (17 x 13 in. )

	Rosina_Ferrara-The_Capri 1878 Private collection Oil 13 x 10.2 in.

	Head of Ana-Capri Girl 1878 Natasha Private collection Oil on canvas 22.9 x 25.4 cm (9 x 10 in.)

	Study of Rosina Ferrara 1878? Private collection Oil on canvas 47 x 38.1 cm (18½ x 15 in.)

	Head of a Capri Girl 1878 Natasha Private collection Oil on canvas 43.2 x 30.5 cm (17 x 12 in.)

	Staircase in Capri 1878 Natasha Private collection, London Oil on canvas 81.9 x 46.3 cm (32 1/4 x 18 1/4 in.)

	Head of an Italian Girl 1878 Private collection Oil on Canvas 45.7 x 38.1 cm (18 x 15 in.) Inscribed and dated: to my cousin Kitty Austin/John S. Sargent 1878

	Staircase 1878 Stirling and Francine Clark Art Institute , Williamstown MA Oil on Canvas 41 x 55.6 cm (16.1 x 21.9 in)

	Portrait of Eugene Juillerat 1878 Natasha Private collection Oil on canvas 16 x 12.75 in Inscribed: a mon ami Juillerat J. S. Sargent.

	Rehearsal of the Pas de Loup Orchestra at the Cirque d'Hiver 1878 Natasha Private collection on load to The Art Institute of Chicago Oil on canvas 92.1 x 71.9 cm (36 5/8 x 28 3/4 in.)

	Sketch after Dega's L'Etoile c. 1878 Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Mass. Pencil on paper 15.2 x 8.9 cm (6 x 3 1/2 in.) Gift of Mrs. Francis Ormond and Miss Emily Sargent (Dega's L'Etoile in juxtaposition)

	Mary Turner Austin c 1878 Natasha Private collection Oil 45.7 x 38.1 cm (18 x 15 in.)

	Studies of a Dead Bird 1878 Metropolitan Museum, New York Oil on canvas 50.8 x 38.1 cm (20 x 15 in.) Gift of Mrs. Francis Ormond, 1950 (50.130.23)

1878 (22 years old)
Year In Context

Back in Paris in his studio he paints Oyster Gatherers of Cancale and shows it at the Salon in May where he wins an honorable mention. The public mural work he did with Carolus-Duran is submitted by Duran and it too gets attention for Sargent. Duran agrees to sit again for a portrait by his star student.

He spends less time at Carolus-Duran's atelier and more at his 73b rue Notre-Dame-des-Champs studio. He meets Augustus Saint-Gaudens for the first time who is just a few doors down at 49 rue Notre-Dame-des-Champs. Sargent joins with him, Beckwith and others in founding the Society of American Artist, New York, in opposition to the National Academy of Design. He exhibits at the Society's first annual show -- Oyster Gatherers of Cancale (sketch) wins praise in America.

With summer, Beckwith returns to the United Sates, and Sargent works alone in their Paris studio and takes over his share of heat and rent.

The city is abuzz with activity as the Paris Exposition of 1878 is getting underway. Augustus Saint-Gaudens and Francis D. Millet both serve on a jury for American artists, though no record of Sargent meeting Millet at this time. Winslow Homer exhibits paintings. Also in town to see the Exposition is Charles McKim a young architect from America. It's believed that Sargent may have briefly met McKim before McKim preceded to the south of France with Saint-Gaudens to study architecture. Millet, McKim, and Saint-Gaudens all would prove to be critical friends to Sargent later.

In July he goes to Aix-les-Bains on his way to Naples with his family and then in late summer by himself on to the island of Capri for August. Here he paints a series of paintings with the model Rosina Ferrara. Starting at A Beach at Capri thru Head of a Capri Girl.

(See essay: Capri Trip)

By September Sargent is back in Paris, but visits Carolus's atelier only intermittently. It is about this time that Sargent visits a young 18 year old Paul-César Helleu, who is a starving French art student. Sargent boosts the despondent artist by buying one of his paintings -- they would be friends for life. Sargent would later paint Helleu many times.

October and November he travels to Nice with his family and by December returns to Paris.

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