Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00001598Thistles
Provenance
Artist's sale, Christie's, London, 24 and 27 July 1925, lot 198, sold to David Croal Thomson of Barbizon House, London; Charles Deering, Chicago; by descent to his daughter, Marion Deering (Mrs. Chauncey McCormick), 1927; by descent to her son Brooks McCormick, 1965; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1996.
Exhibition history
Art Institute of Chicago, John Singer Sargent and Chicago’s Gilded Age, July 1–Sept. 30, 2018, cat. 14.
Publications
James N. Wood, Impressionism and Post–Impressionism in the Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago, 2000), 84. 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), 322–325, cat. 170. Judith A. Barter, et al., The Age of American Impressionism: Masterpieces from the Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago, 2011), cat. 35. Annelise K. Madsen, et al., John Singer Sargent and Chicago's Gilded Age, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 2018), 10, 102, 155, 179, 203, cat. 14, fig. 133 (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
- 1883–89
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 55.9 × 71.8 cm (22 × 28 1/4 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- painting
- Style
- Impressionism
- Place
- England
- Department
- Arts of the Americas
- Credit line
- Gift of Brooks McCormick
- Accession no.
- 1996.446
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