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John Singer Sargent 1856 - 1925
Estimate
200,000 - 300,000 USD
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Description
- John Singer Sargent
- Mrs. Harry Vane Milbank
- signed John S. Sargent and inscribed To my friend/Albert Belleroche (lower left)
- oil on canvas
- 74 1/4 by 35 1/4 inches
- (188.6 by 89.5 cm)
- Painted circa 1883-84.
Provenance
Albert de Belleroche, 1923 (gift from the artist)
Count William de Belleroche, 1944 (his son)
Private collects ion, England, 1969
Replica Handbags s Society, London (sold: Replica Shoes 's, New York, May 24, 2001, lot 33)
Adelson Galleries, New York (acquired at the above sale)
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 2003
Count William de Belleroche, 1944 (his son)
Private collects ion, England, 1969
Replica Handbags s Society, London (sold: Replica Shoes 's, New York, May 24, 2001, lot 33)
Adelson Galleries, New York (acquired at the above sale)
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 2003
Literature
David McKibbin, Sargent's Boston, with an Essay & a Biographical Summary, Boston, Massachusetts, 1956, p. 84
Charles Merrill Mount, John Singer Sargent: A Biography, London, 1957, p. 339
Richard Ormond and Elaine Kilmurray, John Singer Sargent, The Early Portraits: Complete Paintings, New Haven, Connecticut, 1998, vol. I, no. 112, pp. 110-11, 248, illustrated
Charles Merrill Mount, John Singer Sargent: A Biography, London, 1957, p. 339
Richard Ormond and Elaine Kilmurray, John Singer Sargent, The Early Portraits: Complete Paintings, New Haven, Connecticut, 1998, vol. I, no. 112, pp. 110-11, 248, illustrated
Catalogue Note
The present work depicts Alice Sidonie Vandenburg, the mother of the Welsh 19th century genre and portrait painter, Albert de Belleroche. Sargent.mes
t Belleroche in 1882 and subsequently painted and sketched him on several occasions. According to Richard Ormond and Elaine Kilmurray, this portrait "was almost certainly in progress at the same t.mes
as Sargent's portrait of Madame X (1883-84, The Metropolitan Museum of Art), with which it shares a number of features: the silhouetted figure, the black gown, with a décolletage, if anything more risqué than that of Madame X, the left hand resting on the hip in a favourite device, the bent-back wrist" (John Singer Sargent, The Early Portraits: Complete Paintings, New Haven, Connecticut, 1998, p. 110-11).