John Singer Sargent, The Patio
King; and Frances King Schafer, 1946.293 · The Cleveland Museum of Art, Open Access (CC0)View original →
John Singer Sargent

The Patio

1908

Current Collection

Cleveland Museum of Art

Cleveland, United States

Medium
watercolor with traces of gouache over graphite
Dimensions
53.2 × 34.6 cm
Status
In Museum Collection
Collect24 Art ID
C24-210494

Sargent was born in Italy, studied in France, and worked chiefly in England, but he never renounced his American citizenship. As a young man, Sargent achieved fame and wealth as a portraitist, but he gradually tired of painting wealthy, superficial aristocrats. In his later years he focused increasingly on watercolor. Along with Winslow Homer, Sargent was the major artist to develop a spontaneous approach toward watercolor. Rather than carefully layering his pigments, he dashed off his paintings in a single sitting, allowing the colors to freely blend together.

Provenance

King; and Frances King Schafer, 1946.293

Registry history

  • 1908 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art — drawings

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