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Provenance

M. Knoedler & Co., New York, 1915.
Desmond Fitzgerald.
John Batchelder, 1917.
S. Morton Vose and Ruth D. Vose, Brookline, Massachusetts.
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1955.
Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, 1969.
Gloria and Richard Manney.
Private collection.
Acquired by the present owner from the above.

Literature
W.H. Downes, John S. Sargent: His Life and Work, Boston, Massachusetts, 1925, pp. 247-48.
E. Charteris, John Sargent, New York, 1927, p. 293.
C.M. Mount, John Singer Sargent, London, 1957, p. 361.
C.M. Mount, "The Works of John Singer Sargent in Washington," Records of the Columbia Historical Society of Washington, D.C., Washington, D.C., 1973-74, pp. 477-78, illustrated.
P. Hills, et al., John Singer Sargent, exhibition catalogue, New York, 1986, pp. 206, illustrated.
B.D. Gallati, Great Expectations: John Singer Sargent Painting Children, exhibition catalogue, New York, 2004, pp. 33-5, 39, pl. 7, illustrated.

Exhibited
London, Royal Academy of Arts, The 147th Exhibtion of the Royal Academy of Arts, 1915, no. 198.
New York, M. Knoedler & Co., Ninth Annual Summer Exhibition by American Artists, 1916, no. 25.
New York, M. Knoedler & Co., Exhibition of American Painters, February 15-March 3, 1917.
Boston, Massachusetts, Copley Gallery, Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings by John Singer Sargent, January-February, 1917, no. 5.
Boston, Massachusetts, Copley Society of Boston, Copley Society Centennial Exhibit, April-June 1979 (as The Woodcarver, Tyrol, Austria).
New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, John Singer Sargent, October 1986-January 1987, no. 166.
Brooklyn, New York, Brooklyn Museum, Great Expectations: John Singer Sargent Painting Children, October 8, 2004-January 16, 200

Offered Sotheby's; 5/27/93; Lot 54; estimated $200,000-$300,000 
 

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