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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Apr 18, 2018 | Christie's | New York | 19th Century European Art | 8 | $****** - ****** | The Temple of Denderah | |||
Apr 26, 2016 | Christie's | New York | 19th Century European Art | 74 | $****** - ****** | The Temple of Denderah |
paintings
77.5 x 64.1 cm (30.51 x 25.24 in)
oil on canvas
with estate stamp, 'JSS' (on the reverse); inscribed in the artist's hand 'Sketch- Temple of Denderah/to be returned to London' (on a label on the reverse)
The artist.
His estate sale; Christie's, London, 24 July 1925, lot 101.
Sir Frank Athelstane Swettenham (1850-1946), London, acquired at the above sale.
His estate sale; Sotheby's, London, 11 December 1957, lot 126.
Mr. Twinning.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 14 December 1960, lot 155.
with Bernard Black Gallery, New York, acquired at the above sale.
Anonymous sale; Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 8 October 1963, lot 57.
Joseph H. Hirschhorn (1899-1981), Greenwich, CT, by 1963.
By whom gifted to the Hirschorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., 1966.
Their sale; Sotheby's; New York, 1 December 1988, lot 189.
Frazzini/Mills Collection, New York.
with Adelson Galleries, New York, by 1994.
with Meredith Long & Co., Houston, Texas, by 1995.
Joe (1925-2015) and Lee (1930-2007) Jamail, Houston, acquired directly from the above.
Their sale; Christie's, New York, 25 April 2016, lot 74.
Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.
Boston, Copley Hall, Paintings and Sketches by John S. Sargent, R.A., 20 February-13 March 1899, no. 87, as Sketch of the Temple of Denderah.
London, Royal Academy, Royal Academy Winter Exhibition, 1926, of Works by the Late John S. Sargent, R.A., 14 January-13 March 1926, no. 564.
Southampton, NY, Southhampton College, June-September 1965.
W. H. Downes, John S. Sargent, His Life and Work, Boston, 1925, pp. 35, 167.
E. Charteris, John Sargent, New York, 1927, p. 287, with incorrect date.
C. M. Mount, John S. Sargent, New York, 1955, p. 447, no. K911.
John Singer Sargent, His Own Work, Coe Gallery and Wittenborn Art Books, New York, 1980.
R. Ormond and E. Kilmurray, John Singer Sargent, Figures and Landscapes (1883-1899), Complete Paintings, Volume V, New Haven and London, 2010, p. 222, no. 919.
with estate stamp, 'JSS' (on the reverse); inscribed in the artist's hand 'Sketch- Temple of Denderah/to be returned to London' (on a label on the reverse)
oil on canvas
30 ½ x 25 ¼ in. (77.5 x 64.1 cm.)
Painted in 1891.
