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A Nude
Boy on a Beach
John
Singer Sargent
-- American painter
1878
Tate
Gallery, London
Oil on
wood
26.8
x 35.1 cm
Bequeathed
by John Tillotson
1984
Jpg Tate
Gallery
From:
Tate Gallery
After
the success
of his 'Oyster Gatherers of Cancale' at the 1878 Paris Salon,
Sargent
went to Naples and Capri for part of the summer. Two of the oil
sketches
he made there, this one and another in the collection of the Ormond
family,
were later used in a very direct fashion for the painting 'Boys on a
Beach,
Naples', also known as 'Innocence Abroad', dated 1879 and exhibited at
the National Academy of Design, New York that year as 'Neapolitan
Children
Bathing'; Sterling and Francine Clark Art
Institute, Williamstown, Mass.;
Neapolitan Children Bathing
1879
Richard Ormond, John Singer Sargent,
1970, pp.22, 235, pl.5). The boy in the Tate sketch appears at the
bottom
of the picture, his legs cut by the right edge of the canvas. The
Ormond
family sketch, which is more or less the same size as T03927, features
the two younger, standing boys who appear in the Williamstown
painting.
Another
sketch
of the same size, 'Beach at Capri', showing two seated boys with two
beached
boats at the water's edge, was painted about the same time but is not
directly
related to the 1879 exhibit (M.H. De Young Memorial Museum, San
Francisco; John Singer Sargent, his Own Work, exh. cat., Coe
Kerr Gallery,
New York 1980, no.4, repr.).
(Tate
Gallery London)
Notes:
Exhibitions
Great
Expectations: John Singer Sargent Painting Children; 2004-2005
Bibliography:
The
Tate
Gallery 1984-86:
Illustrated Catalogue of Acquisitions Including Supplement to Catalogue
of Acquisitions 1982-84, Tate Gallery, London 1988, p.81
Provenance
The
artist's executors, sold
Christie's 27 July 1925 (185: sale stencil and lot number still on back
of panel) ?315 bt Leopold Sutro, London, sold Sotheby's 10 Nov. 1943
(100)
?17 bt John Tillotson, London
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