Chapman, John Jay, Mrs. (Elizabeth Winthrop Chanler) Search this
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Type:
Paintings
Owner/Location:
Smithsonian American Art Museum 8th & G Streets, N.W Washington District of Columbia 20560 Accession Number: 1980.71
Date:
1893
Notes:
Inventory staff, 2004.
Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2006.
Ormond, Richard and Elaine Kilmurray, "John Singer Sargent: complete paintings; volume 2, Portraits of the 1890s," New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2002, no. 287.
McKibbin, David, "Sargent's Boston," Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, 1956.
Kloss, William, "Treasures from the National Museum of American Art," Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1985, pg. 102 and 219.
Ormond, Richard and Elaine Kilmurray, "John Singer Sargent: complete paintings; volume 2, Portraits of the 1890s," New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2002, pg. 67.
Kloss, William, "Treasures from the National Museum of American Art," Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1985, pg. 103.
(Upper right:) John S Sargent 1893 signed
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Sixty Sixth Annual Exhibition, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1896-1897, no. 288.
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Summary:
Three-quarter-length portrait of Elizabeth Chanler (1866-1937) seated on a sofa with a cushion under her right arm. Her fingers are crossed and she looks directly at the viewer. She wears a black gown with puffed sleeves and square neck and a pendant. Two paintings hang on the wall behind her.
