Object details

Accession number

P3e17

Provenance

Acquired by Sir Frederic Leighton (1830–1896), English painter and sculptor, from John Singer Sargent about 1894.

Purchased by Robert Dunthorne (b. about 1851), print dealer and publisher, at Leighton's sale, Christie's London on 14 July 1896, lot 340 for £22.

Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from Dunthorne through her friend Sally Fairchild (1869–1960) on 8 August 1896 for £170.



Marks

Inscribed and signed (lower right): To Sir Frederic Leighton John S. Sargent

Bibliography

Catalogue. Fenway Court. (Boston, 1903), p. 2. (as "Sketch of Astarte for decoration of the Public Library of the City of Boston")

John La Farge et al (eds.). Noteworthy Paintings in American Private Collections, vol. 1 (New York, 1907), p. 3.

Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), p. 40.

Philip Hendy. European and American Paintings in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1974), pp. 224-25.

Doreen Bolger Burke. “Astarte: Sargent's Study for The Pagan Gods Mural in the Boston Public Library.” Fenway Court (1976), pp. 8-19.

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