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The Golden Room of the Palazzo Clerici, Milan

John Singer Sargent

The Golden Room of the Palazzo Clerici, Milan

1897

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John Singer Sargent

The Golden Room of the Palazzo Clerici, Milan

1897

Physical Qualities Watercolor over graphite, with scraping, on paper, Sheet: 359 × 254 mm. (14 1/8 × 10 in.)
Credit Line Gift from the Winifred M. Gordon Foundation, Inc., Baltimore, in Memory of Douglas Huntly Gordon
Object Number 1997.25
From the artist's studio to Knoedler Art Gallery, New York; acquired from Knoedler, April 1909, by Brooklyn Institute (now Brooklyn Museum of Art); deaccessioned by Brooklyn and sold to Knoedler, 28 January 1926 (stock no. WC 2108); acquired by Douglas Huntly Gordon (died 1986), Baltimore, 1931, from Knoedler; by inheritance to his wife, Winifred Gordon (died 1996), 1986; by bequest to The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1997.
'John Singer Sargent and Edward Darley Boit,' Knoedler Art Gallery, New York, 1909, no. 62.

'American Watercolors,' Knoedler Art Gallery, New York, 1926, no. 22.

'Sargent, Whistler and Mary Cassatt,' Art Institute of Chicago (14 January - 25 Feburary 1954) and Metropolitan Museum of Art (25 March - 23 May 1954), no. 75.

Jay Fisher and Sona Johnston, BMA, "BMA Collects: Nineteenth-Century American Drawings and Watercolors," 9 April - 8 June 1997.

BMA, 'New on View,' June 19-Oct. 6, 2002.
BMA Today, 'In the Spotlight,' July-August 1997.
Richard Ormond, "John Singer Sargent: Complete Paintings," New Haven: Yale, p. 318, ill.

Inscribed: lower right verso in graphite: "109"; on old mount, center verso in graphite: "4333"

Markings: CM: G (Gordon)

Artist

John Singer Sargent

1855–1924

American, 1856-1925
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