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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'


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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