
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00001663Madame Paul Escudier (Louise Lefevre)
Inscriptions
Signed recto, bottom-right, on ground, in red paint: "John S. Sargent 1882".
Provenance
The sitter, Louise Lefevre (1861–1950), Paris, 1882; sold through Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, to Charles Deering (1852–1927), Chicago and Miami, Nov. 1923 [“Carnegie Sells Two Sargents for $60,000,” Art News, Nov. 10, 1923, 1]; by descent to his daughter, Marion Deering McCormick (1886–1965), Chicago, 1927; by descent to her son, Brooks McCormick (1917–2006), Chicago, 1965; bequeathed to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2007.
Exhibition history
Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, Twenty–second Annual International Exhibition of Paintings, Apr. 26–June 17, 1923, cat. 60. Art Institute of Chicago, John Singer Sargent and Chicago’s Gilded Age, July 1–Sept. 30, 2018, cat. 13. New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Sargent and Paris, Apr. 27–Aug. 3, 2025, no cat. no.; Paris, Musée d'Orsay, John Singer Sargent. Éblouir Paris, Sept. 22, 2025–Jan. 11, 2026, cat. 95.
Publications
“Carnegie Sells Two Sargents for $60,000,” Art News 22, no. 5 (Nov. 10, 1923): 1. Annual Report (Art Institute of Chicago, 2007–2008), 19. Judith A. Barter, et al., The Age of American Impressionism: Masterpieces from the Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago, 2011), cat. 34 (ill.). Annelise K. Madsen et al., John Singer Sargent and Chicago's Guilded Age, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 2018), 14, 97–98, 203, cat. 13, fig. 66 (ill.). Stephanie L. Herdrich, Sargent and Paris, exh. cat. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2025), 140, 144, 227, pl. 60 (ill.). Caroline Corbeau-Parsons and Paul Perrin, eds., John Singer Sargent. Éblouir Paris, exh. cat. (Musée d'Orsay, 2025), 172–3, 235, cat. 95 (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
- 1882
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 129.5 × 91.4 cm (51 × 36 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- oil on canvas
- Style
- Impressionism
- Place
- United States
- Department
- Arts of the Americas
- Credit line
- Bequest of Brooks McCormick
- Accession no.
- 2007.391
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