John Singer Sargent, In Austrian Tyrol
Hurlbut Collection, 1921.1734 · The Cleveland Museum of Art, Open Access (CC0)View original →
John Singer Sargent

In Austrian Tyrol

1911

Current Collection

Cleveland Museum of Art

Cleveland, United States

Medium
watercolor with traces of graphite
Dimensions
29.9 × 45.2 cm
Status
In Museum Collection
Collect24 Art ID
C24-213763

Although Sargent’s career was defined by his portraits of high-society patrons, privately he painted landscapes in watercolor and oil throughout his career. After the turn of the century, assured of his reputation, Sargent produced more landscapes than any other kind of painting. Alpine views were among his favorite subjects, but he avoided associating them with the rhetoric of the sublime. Instead, mountain views such as In Austrian Tyrol were closely cropped, often rendered from a low vantage point. The visual relationship between the shapes of the foreground rocks and the mountains themsel…

Provenance

Hurlbut Collection, 1921.1734

Registry history

  • 1911 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art — drawings

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