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I SARGENT OTHER AUTHORITY
Downes, op. cit., p. 28. Versions: (1) Williamstown, Mass.: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, canvas, 1.37 x o.68, inscribed : John S. Sargent Tangier ; exhibited 1880, Paris, Salon, No. 3429 ; (2) J. L Ormond, Switzerland (formerly Emily Sargent), canvas, 0.80 x 0.533, exhibited 1926, London, R.A., No. 258 ; (3) Williamstown, Zoe . cit., pen and black ink on paper, 0.290 x 0.198, signed John S. Sargen t. Done by Sargent for the Salon catalogue, 1880.
BUS HORSES IN JERUSALEM
Blue Room
Water colour on paper, 0.305 x 0.458 . Inscribed in ink at the foot on the right : John S. Sargent Jerusalem/ 1905. The inscription was added in 1906 (an undated letter in the Museum from Sargent to Mrs . Gardner) . Sargent wrote to Mrs . Gardner from Chelsea 7 January [1907] : " It is very kind of you to have written to me of the comfortableness of the horses in their new abode - I feel that to be worthy of this promotion they ought to have had blue ribands plaited into their tails and manes, like Herod's horses in Flaubert's beautiful Herodiade . You know your sketch was done in Jerusalem, but the stalls were not H erod's but Thomas Cook's wh~ has succeeded him in Palestine." P3w32 AUTHORITY
Downes, op . cit., p. 280. John Singer Sargent -
Incensing the Veil
photograph] is very unsatisfactory b ecause the only interest of the thing was the colour." 2 The " little picture" m ay possibly ha ve been the fini shed canvas. This is four and a half feet high, but Sargent had a gift for understatement, especially concerning his own works. It must by now ha ve been finished, and Sargent may have lost interest in the smaller essays. Dr. Pozzi was the owner also of Madame Gautreau Drinkin g a T oast (above) . After his murder by a madman, part of his collection was sold in Paris, 23-24 June 1919 at the Galerie Georges Petit. The watercolour (No. 24) was bought by Kn oedler and Co ., and sold to Farr of Philadelphia . From him Mrs. Gardner bought it by mail 17 November 1919. P3w33 'Ormond, in a letter to the Director. 0rmond, op. cit., pp. 22, 27, 36, and p. 95, note 43. He implies that Sargent's letter refers to the large canvas. 2
MRS. GARDNER AT FENWAY COURT Yellow Room Water colour on paper, 0.45 x 0.30. Painted in 1903 with unusual breadth, though the face is left blank . The setting is the recently completed courtyard. p154 AUTHOR IT Y
Downes, op. cit., p. 280 . THE TERRACE AT LA GRANJA
Blue Room
Water colour on paper, 0.30 x 0.45. The palace of La Granja (the grange or farm) , at San Ildefonso near Segovia in the Sierra de Guadarramas, was built 1721-23 for King Philip V, first Bourbon King of Spain. Sargent was in Spain again in 1902, 1903 and in 1912. He sent this wa tercolour to Mrs . Asher Wertheimer. The Anderson Galleries sale catalogue states that it is inscribed on the back: To Mrs. W erth eimer, with compliments of John S. Sargent. This is no longer visible as the paper is now pasted onto card; but this has the name Wertheimer, and