
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00001485Venetian Glass Workers
Inscriptions
Signed, lower left: "John S. Sargent"
Provenance
Friedrich Wilhelm Carl Bechstein, Berlin, by 1886. Hotel Drouot, Paris, by 1895. Charles Hovey Pepper, (Paris?), by 1896. Macbeth Gallery, New York, by 1911; Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson, Chicago, 1912; by descent to Mrs. Martn A. Ryerson, Chicago, 1932; bequeathed to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1933.
Exhibition history
Art Institute of Chicago, The Friends of American Art Loan Exhibition of American Paintings at the Art Institute of Chicago, Jan. 8–28, 1914, cat. 1. Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Memorial Exhibition of the Works of the Late John Singer Sargent, Nov. 3–Dec. 27, 1925, cat. 14. Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress: Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, May 23–Oct. 31, 1933, cat. 480. Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, June 1–Oct. 31, 1934, cat. 411. Appleton, WI, Lawrence College, New Alexander Gymnasium, Loan Exhibition of American Paintings at Lawrence College, Sept. 22–Oct. 4, 1937, cat. 6. San Francisco, Golden Gate International Exposition, Historical American Paintings, Feb. 18–Oct. 29, 1939, cat. 20. WI, Milwaukee Art Institute, Nineteenth Century American Masters, Feb. 20–Mar. 28, 1948, no. 36. Art Institute of Chicago, Two Centuries of American Art, 1750-1950, Oct. 1, 1959–Jan. 10, 1960, no cat. [downloadable checklist available]. Washington, DC, Corcoran Gallery of Art, The Private World of John Singer Sargent, Apr. 18–June 14, 1964, cat. 15; Cleveland Museum of Art, July 7–Aug. 16; Worcester Art Museum, MA, Sept. 17–Nov. 1; Utica, NY, Munson–Williams–Proctor Institute, Nov. 15, 1964–Jan. 3, 1965. Dayton Art Institute, OH, American Expatriate Painters of the Late Nineteenth Century, Dec. 4, 1976–Jan. 16, 1977, cat. 43, pl. 24; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Feb. 4–Mar. 20, 1977; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Apr. 12–May 29, 1977. Albi, France, Musée Toulouse–Lautrec, Trésors Impressionnistes du Musée de Chicago, June 27–Aug. 31, 1980, 63 (ill.) New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, John Singer Sargent, Oct. 1986–Jan. 1987, no cat. no. Nagaoka, Japan, Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Shikago Bijutsukan Ten: Kindai Kaiga no 100–nen [Masterworks of Modern Art from the Art Institute of Chicago], Apr. 20–May 29, 1994, cat.; Nagoya, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, June 10–July 24, 1994; Yokohama Museum of Art, Aug. 6–Sept. 25, 1994. Williamstown, MA, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Uncanny Spectacle: The Public Career of the Young John Singer Sargent, June 12–Sept. 14, 1997, cat. 12. Art Institute of Chicago, John Singer Sargent and Chicago’s Gilded Age, July 1–Sept. 30, 2018, cat. 10, fig. 95. Washington, DC, Smithonsian American Art Museum, Sargent, Whistler, and Venetian Glass: American Artists and the Magic of Murano, Oct. 8, 2021–May 8, 2022; Fort Worth, TX, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, June 25–Sept. 11, 2022; Mystic Seaport Museum, CT, Oct. 15, 2022–Feb. 27, 2023 (Washington and Fort Worth only).
Publications
William Howe Downes, John S. Sargent: His Life and Work (Little, Brown and Company, 1925), 144, ill. facing p. 88. Robert B. Harshe, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection (Art Institute of Chicago, 1925), 163, cat. 2197, https://hdl.handle.net/2027/gri.ark:/13960/s2hxd115k60. Evan Charteris, John Sargent (Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1927), 282. Charles Merrill Mount, John Singer Sargent: A Biography (W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1955), 445, no. K8220, 1969 ed. p. 463. Richard Ormond, John Singer Sargent: Paintings, Drawings, Watercolors (Harper & Row, 1970), 30. Margaretta M. Lovell, “American Artists in Venice, 1860–1920,” Antiques 127 (April 1985): 864–9. James N. Wood and Katharine C. Lee, Masterpiece Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, 1988). Margaretta M. Lovell, A Visitable Past: Views of Venice by American Artists, 1860–1915 (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1989), 77, 79, 80 (ill.), fig. 91. Hugh Honour and John Fleming, The Venetian Hours of Henry James, Whistler and Sargent (Boston, Toronto, London: Little, Brown and Company, 1991), 66, color ill. Judith A. Barter, et al., American Arts at The Art Institute of Chicago: From Colonial Times to World War I (Art Institute of Chicago, 1998). Judith A. Barter, et al., The Age of American Impressionism: Masterpieces from the Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago, 2011), cat. 32. Cheryll L. May, A Seamless Web: Transatlantic Art in the Nineteenth Century, ed. Marian Wardle (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014), 173 (ill.). Lauren Moya Ford, "How Venetian Glass Seduced American Artists a Century Ago," Hyperallergic, last modified January 6, 2022, https://hyperallergic.com/699494/how-venetian-glass-seduced-american-artists-a-century-ago (ill.). Kate Eagen Johnson, "Sargent, Whistler and Venetian Glass: American Artists and the Magic of Murano," in Antiques and The Arts Weekly, July 1, 2022, 30 (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
- 1880–82
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 56.5 × 84.5 cm (22 1/4 × 33 1/4 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- painting
- Style
- Impressionism
- Place
- Venice
- Department
- Arts of the Americas
- Credit line
- Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection
- Accession no.
- 1933.1217
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