MAKE A GIFT BUY TICKETS MAP
Carolus-Duran

John Singer Sargent

American, 1856–1925

Carolus-Duran

1879

Carolus-Duran was among the most celebrated portrait painters working in Paris in the 1870s. With his casual pose and elegant clothing, he is presented as a dandy or fashionable man-about-town. On his lapel he wears the red pin of the French Legion of Honour, awarded for his contribution to the arts. Sargent studied with Carolus-Duran, launching his own career by exhibiting this portrait to great acclaim. Along the top, he added an inscription paying homage to his teacher and describing himself as an “affectionate pupil.”

Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions 46 x 37 13/16 in. (116.8 x 96 cm) Frame: 59 x 50 1/8 x 3 in. (149.9 x 127.3 x 7.6 cm)
Object Number 1955.14
Acquisition Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status On View

Image Caption

John Singer Sargent, Carolus-Duran, 1879, oil on canvas. Clark Art Institute, 1955.14

Select Bibliography

Iverson, Tim. "Remembering Carolus-Duran." Classical Realism Quarterly 4, no. 4 (9 February 1990): 37. Fink, Lois Marie. American Art at the 19th-century Paris Salons. Washington, DC: National Museum of American Art; Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Conrads, Margaret C. American Paintings and Sculpture at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1990. Weinberg, H. Barbara. The Lure of Paris: Nineteenth-Century American Painters and Their French Teachers. New York: Abbeville Press, 1991. Kern, Steven, ed. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1992. Volk, Mary Crawford. John Singer Sargent's El Jaleo. Exhibition catalogue. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1992. Iverson, Tim. "Paint Oil Portraits Like Sargent." The Artist's Magazine 10, no. 9 (September 1993): 3843. Martin, Jennifer, et al. L'Art des Etats-Unis. Trans. by Christiane Thiollier. Paris: Citadelles & Mazenod, 1992. Hamlyn, Robin and Christoph Heilmann, Christopher Newall, Julia Treuherz. Victorianische Malerei von Turner bis Whistler. Exhibition catalogue. Munich: Prestel Verlag 1993. Wolfe, Richard J. Robert C. Hinckley and the Recreation of the First Operation under Ether. Boston: Boston Medical Library, 1993. Weinberg, H. Barbara. John Singer Sargent. Rizzoli Art series. New York: Rizzoli, 1994. Fairbrother, Trevor J. John Singer Sargent. Library of American Art. New York: Abrams in association with the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 1994. Kern, Steven, et al. The Clark: Selections from the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1996. Rolfe, Julia Rayer, et al. Portrait of a Lady: Sargent and Lady Agnew. Edinburgh: National Gallery of Scotland, 1997. Gibson, Clare. Sargent. London: Saturn Books, 1997. Simpson, Marc. "Robert Sterling Clark as a Collector of Sargent." The Magazine Antiques 62, no. 4 (October 1997): 5547. Fortune, Brandon Brame. "Not Above Reproach: The Career of Lucy Lee-Robbins." American Art 12, no. 1 (Spring 1998): 4065. Simpson, Marc. "Sargent, Velásquez, and the Critics: Velasquez Come to Life Again." Apollo 148, no. 439 (September 1998): 312. Van Wyk, Helen. Portraits in Oil the Van Wyk Way. Rockland, MA: Art Instruction Associates, 1998. Prettejohn, Elizabeth. Interpreting Sargent. London: Tate Gallery, 1998. Chennell, Paul. "Sargent, Delius, and Grez." Delius Society Journal no. 125 (Spring 1999): 1518. Herdrich, Stephenie L., and H. Barbara Weinberg. American Drawings and Watercolors in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: John Singer Sargent. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale University Press, 2000. Weber, Bruce and Pepe Merchetti Franchi. Intimate Revelations: The Art of Carroll Beckwith. New York: Berry-Hill Galleries, 1999. Weinberg, H. Barbara and Herdrich, Stephanie. "John Singer Sargent in The Metropolitan Museum of Art." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 57, no. 4 (2000). Lefebvre, Christiane. Carolus-Duran. Exhibition catalogue. Paris: Brame & Lorenceau, 2003. Conforti, Michael, et al. The Clark Brothers Collect: Impressionist and Early Modern Paintings. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute; New Haven: distributed by Yale University Press, 2006. St. Botolph Club. Exhibition of Paintings and Statuary. Exhibition catalogue. Boston: St. Botolph Club, 1880. The Fine Art Society. Collection of Pictures by British and American Artists from the Paris Salon. Exhibition catalogue. London: The Fine Art Society, 1882. Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Catalogue of the One-Hundred-and-Sixteenth Annual Exhibition of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Exhibition catalogue. Philadelphia: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 1921. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Exhibit Four: First Two Rooms. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1955. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Exhibit Four & Exhibit Seven. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1958. Hennessey, William J. The American Portrait: From the Death of Stuart to the Rise of Sargent. Exhibition catalogue. Worcester, MA: Worcester Art Museum, 1973. Hills, Patricia. John Singer Sargent. Exhibition catalogue. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art in association with Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1986. Marlais, Michael. Americans and Paris. Exhibition catalogue. Colby College Museum of Art: Waterville, ME, 1990. Simpson, Marc, et al. Uncanny Spectacle: The Public Career of the Young John Singer Sargent. Exhibition catalogue. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press; Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1997. Silvestre, Armand. "Demi-dieux et simple mortels au Salon de 1879." Le Monde des arts. +La Vie Moderne (22 May 1879): 116–18. Anonymous. "Exhibition of the Salon." New York Times, June 1, 1879. Baignières, Arthur. "Le Salon de 1879." Gazette des Beaux-Arts 20 (July 1879): 549–72. Anonymous. "The Last Paris Salon, II." The American Architect and Building News 6 (18 Oct 1879). Hooper, Lucy H. "The Paris Salon of 1879.II." The Art Journal New Series 5 (1879): 24951. Outremer. "American Painters of the Salon of 1879." The Aldine 9, no. 12 (1879): 370–72. Tardieu, Charles. "La Peinture au Salon de Paris 1879." L'Art 17, pt. 2 (1879). D'Anvers, N. (Mrs. Arthur Bell). Representative Painters of the XIXth Century. London: Sampson Low, Marston and Company; New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1879. Lafenestre, Georges. Livre d'Or du Salon de Peinture et de Sculpture, I. Paris: Librairie des Bibliophiles, 1879. Dumas, F.-G. Salon illustré de 1879. Exhibition catalogue. Paris: Ludovic Baschet, 1879. "Untitled illustration." L'Illustration 75 (17 January 1880). Anonymous. "Fine Arts Society of American Artists." New York Herald, 8 March 1880. Anonymous. "Fine Arts: Society of American Artists." New York Herald, 22 March 1880. Anonymous. "Fine Art. Society of American Artists. Third Annual Exhibition [Second Notice]." New York Tribune, 25 March 1880. Anonymous. "One Day in the GallerySociety of American Artists." New York Times, 26 March 1880. Anonymous. "Society of American Artists." New York World, 28 March 1880. Anonymous. "Society of American Artists Exhibition." The Art Interchange 4 (31 March 1880): 35, 59. Anonymous. "Fine Arts: The Society of American Artists." The Nation 3 (1 April 1880). Anonymous. "Fine Arts: National Academy of Design 55th Annual Exhibition." New York Tribune, 4 April 1880. Anonymous. "The American Artists." New York Times, 16 April 1880. Anonymous. "Art for Artists." The Art Amateur 2, no. 5 (April 1880): 8990. Rensselaer, M[ariana] G[riswold] van. "Spring Exhibition and Picture Sales in New York I." American Architect and Building News 7 (1 May 1880). Anonymous. "Art Notes." Boston Evening Transcript, 21 May 1880. Carter, S[usan]. N. "New York Spring Exhibitions: II. The Society of American Artists." The Art Journal New Series 6 (1880): 153–56. Hooper, Lucy H. "Art Notes from Paris." The Art Journal New Series 6 (1880): 1568. Greta. "John S. Sargent." The Art Amateur 2, no. 6 (May 1880): 118. Anonymous. "Special Correspondence: American Artists at the Paris Salon." The Art Interchange 4 (9 June 1880): 100. Mantz, Paul. "Le SalonVII." Le Temps (Paris), 20 June 1880. Cicerone, Greta. "Boston Correspondence: The Opening of the St. Botolph Club." American Art Galleries. The Art Amateur 3, no. 1 (June 1880): 67. Lathrop, G. P. "The ExhibitionsVIII: St. Botolph Club, Boston." American Art Review 1, no. 10 (June 1880): 4446. Montezuma. "My Note Book." The Art Amateur 3, no. 6 (Nov. 1880): 113. Anonymous. "Among the Artists." New York Daily Tribune, 27 March 1881 Société des Artistes Francaises. Salon de 1879: Catalogue illustré. Paris: Librairie Artistique, 1882. Anonymous. "America in Europe." Magazine of Art (London) 6 (1883). Montezuma. "My Note Book." The Art Amateur 13, no. 3 (August 1885): 435. James, Henry. "John S. Sargent." Harper's New Monthly Magazine 75, no. 449 (October 1887): 683–92. Stevenson, R. A. M. "J. S. Sargent." Art Journal 50 (March 1888): 65–69. Child, Theodore. "American Artists at the Paris Exposition." Harper's New Monthly Magazine 79, no. 472 (September 1889): 489–521. Anonymous. "Young Men of New York." Harper's Weekly 35 (19 August 1891). James, Henry. Picture and Text. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1893. Anonymous. "Carolus-Duran." The Art Amateur 21, no. 3 (February 1895). Marks, Montague. "My Note Book." The Art Amateur 32, no. 3 (February 1895). Coffin, William A. "Sargent and His Painting." Century Magazine 52, no. 2 (June 1896): 163178. Anonymous. "Americans Who Paint in London." The New York Times, Saturday Review of Books and Art, 6 February 1897. Dixon, Marion Hepworth. "Mr. John S. Sargent as a Portrait Painter." The Magazine of Art 23 (January 1899). Baldry, Alfred Lys. "The Art of J. S. Sargent, R.A. (Part I)." The Studio 19 (February 1900). Baldry, Alfred Lys. "The Art of J. S. Sargent, R.A. (Part I)." The International Studio 10 (March 1900). Rummell, John, and E. M. Berlin. Aims and Ideals of Representative American Painters. Buffalo, NY: E. M. Berlin, 1901. Caffin, Charles H. "John S. Sargent: The Greatest Contemporary Portrait Painter." The World's Work 7 (November 1903): 40994116. Cortissoz, Royal. "John S. Sargent." Scribner's Magazine 34 (November 1903). Mills, Evan. "A Personal Sketch of Mr. Sargent." The World's Work 7 (November 1903): 4116–18. Isham, Samuel. The History of American Painting. New York: Macmillan Co., 1905. Brinton, Christian. "Sargent and His Art." Munsey's Magazine 36, no. 3 (December 1906). McSpadden, Joseph Walker. Famous Painters of America. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., 1907. Fiske, Charles Henry. "Modern Portrait Painting." Chautauquan 50 (March 1908): 5688. Brinton, Christian. Modern Artists. New York: The Baker & Taylor Co., 1908. Wood, T. Martin. Sargent. Masterpieces in Colour, edited by T. Leman Hare. New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1909. Modjeska, Helena. Memories and Impressions of Helena Modjeska: An Autobiography. New York: Macmillan Co., 1910. Cortissoz, Royal. Art and Common Sense. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1913. Cournos, John. "John Singer Sargent." The Forum 54 (August 1915). McSpadden, Joseph Walker. Famous Painters of America. New York: Dodd, Mead & Co,. 1916. Van Dyck, John C. American Painting and Its Tradition. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1919. Anonymous. "Academy Exhibit Opens Tomorrow." Philadelphia Bulletin (5 February 1921). Anonymous. "The World of Art: Pennsylvania Academy Exhibition, 1st Notice." New York Times, 13 February 1921. Field, Hamilton Easter. "The Pennsylvania Academy." The Arts 1, no. 3 (FebruaryMarch 1921): 229. Anonymous. "Plan to Erect Sargent Gallery." New York Herald, Paris, 26 March 1924. Berry, Rose V. S. "John Singer Sargent: Some of His American Work." Art and Archaeology 18 (September 1924). Starkweather, William. "John S. Sargent." The Mentor 12 (October 1924). V[uaflart], A[lbert]. "John S. Sargent: peintre, associé étranger, 1856-1925." Académie des Beaux-Arts (JanuaryJune 1925). Anonymous. "J. S. Sargent Dies in Sleep in London." New York Times, 16 April 1925. Brock, H. J. "John Sargent, Man and Painter." New York Times, 19 April 1925. Hind, C. Lewis. "Sargent." The Outlook (New York) 139 (29 April 1925): 648–50. Minchin, Hamilton. "Some Early Recollections of Sargent." Contemporary Review 127 (June 1925). Jacomb-Hood, G. P. "John Sargent." The Cornhill Magazine 59 (September 1925). Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. A Catalogue of the Memorial Exhibition of the Works of the Late John Singer Sargent to be Opened on the Occasion of the Unveiling of Mr. Sargent's Mural Decorations over the Main Stair Case and the Library of the Museum, Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1925. Hind, C. Lewis. "John Sargent." The Fortnightly Review 119 (1 March 1926). Law, Frederick Houk. "Modern Great Americans: John Singer SargentArtist." St. Nicholas Magazine 53 (October 1926). Downes, William Howe. John S. Sargent: His Life and Work. London: Thornton & Butterworth, 1926. Van Rensselaer, Mrs. Schuyler. Memorial Exhibition of the Work of John Singer Sargent. Exhibition catalogue. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1926. Mather, Frank Jewett, Jr. "Enigma of Sargent." Saturday Review of Literature 3 (26 February 1927). Hale, Mary Newbold Patterson. "The Sargent I Knew." The World Today 50 (November 1927). Charteris, Evan. John Sargent. London: William Heineman, Ltd., 1927. Forbes, Edward W. "John Singer Sargent 18561925." In Later Years of the Saturday Club 18791920, edited by M. A. DeWolfe Howe. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1927. Irwin, Grace. Trail-Blazers of American Art. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1930. Mather, Frank Jewett, Jr. Sixteen Essays on American Painters of the 19th Century. Estimates in Art, Series II. New York: Henry Holt & Co., 1931. Pennell, Elizabeth. "When I Was a Critic, II." Creative Art 11 (December 1932). Hartmann, Sadakichi. A History of American Art. Revised edition. New York: Tudor Publishing Co., 1932. Blashfield, Edwin H. "John Singer Sargent." In Commemorative Tributes of the American Academy of Arts & Letters. New York: American Academy of Arts & Letters: 1942. Pailleron, M. L. Le paradis perdu. Paris: A. Michel, 1947. Sweet, Frederick A. Sargent, Whistler, and Mary Cassatt. Exhibition catalogue. Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago. 1954. (exh.cat.). Mount, Charles Merrill. John Singer Sargent: A Biography. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1955. Mount, Charles Merrill. "Sargent: An American Old Master." New York Times Magazine (8 January 1956). McKibbin, David. Sargent's Boston. Exhibition catalogue. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1956. Mount, Charles Merrill. "Archives of American ArtReport 302: New Discoveries Illumine Sargent's Paris Career." Art Quarterly 20 (Autumn 1957). Gilman, Richard. "Americans Abroad." American Heritage 12, no. 6 (October 1961): 817. Charsenol, G. "Beaux-Arts: Sargent au Centre Culturel Américain." Le Revue des Deux Mondes 2 (15 March 1963). Mount, Charles Merrill. "Carolus-Duran and the Development of Sargent." The Art Quarterly 26, no. 4 (Winter 1963): 385–417. Sutton, Denys. "A Bouquet for Sargent." Apollo 79 (May 1964): 395–400. McGinniss, John Dee. John Singer Sargent and the Ironic Tradition. Ph.D. diss., Florida State University, Tallahassee, 1968. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1970. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling & Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1972. Jackson, Lambert Blunt. The Expatriates: The Major Artists in Europe, 18651914. Ph.D. diss., University of Delaware, Newark, 1976. Gammell, R. H. Ives. "The Enigma of John Sargent's Art." Classical America 4 (1977). Denvir, Bernard. "Mostly Upstairs." Art and Artists 14 (July 1979). Green, Maureen. "A New and Admiring Look at the Elegance of John Singer Sargent." Smithsonian 10 (October 1979). Sutton, Denys. "The Yankee Brio of John Singer Sargent." Portfolio: The Magazine of the Visual Arts 1 (OctoberNovember 1979). Lomax, James, and Richard Ormond. John Singer Sargent and the Edwardian Age. Exhibition catalogue. Leeds, England: Leeds Art Galleries; Detroit: Detroit Institute of Arts, 1979. Wheaton, Marilyn L. John Singer Sargent and the Edwardian Age: The Documents. Detroit, MI: Detroit Institute of Arts Education Department, 1979. Weinberg, H. Barbara. "John Singer Sargent: Reputation Redivivus." Arts Magazine 54 (March 1980). Cagle, Charles. "The Revelation of Character in the Portraits of John Singer Sargent." Midwest Quarterly: A Journal of Contemporary Thought 22 (October 1980). Troyen, Carol. The Boston Tradition: American Paintings from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. New York: American Federation of Arts, 1980. Coe Kerr Gallery. John Singer Sargent: His Own Work. Exhibition catalogue. New York: Coe Kerr Gallery, 1980. Young, Mahonri Sharp. American Realists, Homer to Hopper. New York: Watson-Guptill, 1977. Brooks, John H. Highlights: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1981. Ratcliff, Carter. John Singer Sargent. New York: Abbeville Press, 1982. Robertson, Meg. "John Singer Sargent: His Early Success in America, 1878-1879." Archives of American Art Journal 22, no. 4 (1982): 20–26. Bienenstock, Jennifer A. Martin. The Formation and Early Years of the Society of American Artists: 18771884. Ph.D. diss., Graduate Center, City University of New York, 1983. Faison, Jr., S. Lane. The New England Eye: Master American Paintings from New England School, College, and University Collections. Williamstown: Williams College Museum of Art, 1983. Stebbins, Theodore E., Carol Troyen, and Trevor J. Fairbrother. A New World: Masterpieces of American Painting. Exhibition catalogue. Boston: Boston Museum of Fine Arts, 1983. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1984. Gerdts, William H. American Impressionism. New York: Abbeville Press. 1984. Brooke, David S. "Robert Sterling Clark and the Clark Art Institute." Laurels 56, no. 3 (Winter 198586): 137–48. Anonymous. Sargent. The Great Artists 83. London: Marshall Cavendish Partworks, 1986. Fairbrother, Trevor. The Bostonians: Painters of an Elegant Age, 18701930. Exhibition catalogue. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1986. Fairbrother, Trevor J. John Singer Sargent and America. Ph.D. diss., Boston University, 1981. New York: Garland Publishing, 1986. Fairbrother, Trevor. "Warhol Meets Sargent at Whitney." Arts Magazine 61, no. 6 (February 1987): 6471. Olson, Stanley. John Singer Sargent: His Portrait. London: Macmillan, 1986. Morgan, H. Wayne. An American Art Student in Paris: The Letters of Kenyon Cox, 18771882. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 1986. Olson, Stanley, Warren Adelson, and Richard L. Ormond. Sargent at Broadway: The Impressionist Years. Exhibition catalogue. New York: Coe Kerr Gallery, 1986. Cooper, James F. "John Singer Sargent: The Last Conservative." American Arts Quarterly 1 (Winter 1987). Reynolds, Gary A. "John Singer Sargent's Portaits: Building a Cosmopolitan Career." Arts Magazine 62 (November 1987). Milner, John. The Studios of Paris: The Capital of Art in the Late Nineteenth Century. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1988. Ormond, Richard. John Singer Sargent: Paintings, Drawings, and Watercolors. London: Phaidon Press, 1970. Ormond, Richard and Elaine Kilmurray. John Singer Sargent: Complete Paintings. Vol. 1, The Early Portraits. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998. Wilmerding, John. American Art in the Princeton University Art Museum. Volume I, Drawings and Watercolors. Princeton: Princeton University Art Museum, 2004. Kilmurray, Elaine, and Richard Ormond. Sargent e l'Italy. Ferrar, Italy: Ferrara Arte S.p.A., 2002. Tinterow, Gary and Geneviève Lacambre. Manet/Valázquez: The French Taste for Spanish Painting. Exhibition catalogue. New York and New Haven: The Metropolitan Museum of Art in association with Yale University Press, 2003. Davis, Deborah. Strapless: John Singer Sargent and the Fall of Madame X. New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin, 2003. Adler, Kathleen, Erica E. Hirschler, and H. Barbara Weinberg. Americans in Paris, 18601900. Exhibition catalogue. London: National Gallery Company Limited. 2006. Adelson, Warren, et al. Sargent's Venice. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2006. Syme, Alison. A Touch of Blossom: John Singer Sargent and the Queer Flora of Fin-de-Siècle Art. University Park, Pa.: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2010. Augé, Jean-Louis, et al. Carolus-Duran, 18371917. Exhibition catalogue. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 2003. Cash, Sarah, ed. Corcoran Gallery of Art: American Paintings to 1945. Washington, DC: The Corcoran Gallery of Art, 2011. McCullough, David. The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2011. Canter, Danielle. The Fop and the Fencer: Expressions of Masculinity in John Singer Sargent's Portrait of Carolus-Duran. Course paper, Art History 555: John Singer Sargent, Graduate Program in the History of Art, Williams College, Williamstown, MA, 2011. Canter, Danielle. Verbal Description and Reflection: The Portrait of Carolus-Duran. Course paper, Art History 555: John Singer Sargent, Graduate Program in the History of Art, Williams College, Williamstown, MA, 2011. Yu, Tiffany. John Singer Sargent's Resurrection through Carolus-Duran. Course paper, Art History 555: John Singer Sargent, Graduate Program in the History of Art, Williams College, Williamstown, MA, 2011. Yu, Tiffany. Poise and Elegance in Sargent's Portrait of Carolus-Duran. Course paper, Art History 555: John Singer Sargent, Graduate Program in the History of Art, Williams College, Williamstown, MA, 2011. Lostalot, Alfred de. "Exposition de Portraits du Siècle a l'École des Beaux-Arts." Gazette des Beaux-Arts 28 (July 1883): 8191. Pattson, E. F. S. "The Salon of 1879 (Fourth Notice)." The Academy XV (June 1879): 5289. Anonymous. "Exhibition of the Salon: Work of the Paris Artists." New York Times, 1 June 1879. Leroy, Louis. "Le Salon-Club." Le Charivari (11 June 1879): 1245. Palmela, A.M., Le Duc de. "Le Salon de 1879, II." L'Artiste 2 (1879): 812. Syène, Frédéric de. "Les Beaux-Arts en 1879: Revue Rétrospective." L'Artiste, December 1879: 41618. Anonymous. "One Day in the Gallery: Society of American Artists." New York Times, 26 March 1880. Benjamin, S. G. W. "IV. Society of American Artists: Third Exhibition." American Art Review 1, no. 6 (April 1880): 25862. Goldin, Marco, and H. Barbara Weinberg. Pittura Americana del XIX: Atti del convegno secolo. Treviso: Linea d'ombra libri, 2008. Hirshler, Erica E. Sargent's Daughters: The Biography of a Painting. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 2009. Marshall, Traute M. Art Museums Plus: Cultural Excursions in New England. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 2009. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Paintings on Exhibition, July 1968. Exhibition brochure. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1968. R., J. J. "The Paris Salon of 1880." Our Monthly Gossip. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science 26 (September 1880): 3835. Anonymous. "Pictures of the Salon." New York Times, 4 July 1880: 2. Anonymous. "Les Médailles du Salon." L'Art V (1879): 239. Feydeau, M. A. Letter. 15 December 1919. M. Knoedler & Co., New York. Letter to Robert Sterling Clark. 8 January 1920. Kleiser, Constance. "Constance Kleiser's Art Column." The Orange Leader, 24 July 1960. Kilmurray, Elaine, and Richard Ormond. John Singer Sargent. Exhibition catalogue. London: Tate Publishing, 1998.

Provenance

To Emile-Auguste Carolus-Duran, 1879; to Mr. Rougeron;* to Emile-Auguste Carolus-Duran; (Pierre and Co., Paris); to (M. Knoedler & Co., Paris, December 17, 1919); to Robert Sterling Clark, December 31, 1919. *It seems that Carolus-Duran used the painting as collateral for a loan from Mr. Rougeron in the early 1880s. The story is recounted in Robert Sterling Clark's diary, January 29, 1929, when Rougeron's son saw the picture in Mr. Clark's New York home.

Related