Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00000812Water Carriers on the Nile
Inscriptions
Stamped on verso: "JSS"
Provenance
Christie, Manon & Woods, London, ["Catalogue of Pictures and Water Colour Drawings by J.S. Sargent, R.A. and Works by Other Artists," no. 131] July 24, 1925; the Cooling Galleries, London, 1925; Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Worcester, Chicago, 1925; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1935.
Exhibition history
Washington, DC, Corcoran Gallery of Art, The Private World of John Singer Sargent, Apr. 18–June 14, 1964, cat. 55; Cleveland Museum of Art, July 7–Aug. 16, 1964; MA, Worcester Art Museum, Sept. 17–Nov. 1, 1964; Utica, NY, Munson–Williams–Proctor Institute, Nov. 15, 1964–Jan. 3, 1965. Art Institute of Chicago, John Singer Sargent and Chicago’s Gilded Age, July 1–Sept. 30, 2018, cat. 23.
Publications
Donelson F. Hoopes and Hermann Warner Williams, The Private World of John Singer Sargent, exh. cat. (Plainview, NY: Shorewood Publishers, 1964), cat. 55. Annelise K. Madsen, et al., John Singer Sargent and Chicago's Gilded Age, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 2018), 127, 129, 204, cat. 23, fig. 106 (ill.).
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- John Singer Sargent (American, 1856–1925)
- Date
- 1891
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 54.3 × 65.4 cm (21 3/8 × 25 3/4 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- painting
- Style
- Modernism
- Place
- United States
- Department
- Arts of the Americas
- Credit line
- Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Collection
- Accession no.
- 1935.445
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