Rosina-Capri
Private
collection
Oil
on canvasa
19.7
x 25.5 in.
Signed
and
View
of Capri
1878
Yale
University Art Gallery, New Haven Ca.
Oil
on academy board
10
x 13 1/4 in.
Edwin
Austin Abbey Memorial Collectioni
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Capri
John
Singer Sargent
-- American painter
1878
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"
Jpg:
local
The painting is of
Rosina Ferrara
doing a tarantella
dance on the rooftop of (probably) Sargent's hotel. The inscription
"to my friend Fanny" is Frances
Sherborne Ridley Watts whom Sargent painted in 1877 for the
Sargent's
first Salon show.
Notes
Exhibitions
John Singer Sargent,
An Exhibition -- Whitney
Museum, NY & The Art Institute of Chicago 1986-1987
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