Sargent and Fashion
Fashion, identity, painting: explore the unique work of John Singer Sargent
- Artist
- John Singer Sargent 1856–1925
- Medium
- Oil paint on canvas
- Dimensions
- Support: 1340 × 1010 mm
frame: 1613 × 1268 × 157 mm - Collection
- Tate
- Acquisition
- Presented by the widow and family of Asher Wertheimer in accordance with his wishes 1922
- Reference
- N03713
Catalogue entry
N03713 ALMINA, DAUGHTER OF ASHER WERTHEIMER 1908
Inscr. ‘John S. Sargent’ t.l. and ‘1908’ t.r.
Canvas, 52 3/4×39 3/4 (134×98·5), with painted strips 5 (13), 3 1/2 (9), 4 1/4 (11), and 5 1/2 (14) wide turned over along top, left, right and bottom edges respectively.
Presented to the National Gallery by the widow and family of Asher Wertheimer in accordance with his wishes 1922; transferred 1926.
Coll: As for N03705.
Exh: Fair Women, International Society, May–July 1910 (31), as ‘Almina’, lent by Asher Wertheimer.
Lit: Robert Ross, ‘The Wertheimer Sargents’ in Art Journal, 1911, p.8, repr. p.6; Downes, 1925, p.199; Charteris, 1927, p.270 (listed as of 1902); Mount, 1955, pp.225, 437 (as 1902); McKibbin, 1956, p.130; Mount, 1957, pp.187, 349.
The sitter, who also appears in N03712, wears Persian costume and holds a Persian sixteenth-century eight-stringed lute.
Published in:
Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, London 1964, II
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