Taft Museum 316 Pike Street Cincinnati Ohio 45202 Accession Number: 1931.472
Date:
1887
Notes:
"Taft Museum Catalogue" Cincinnati, OH: Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts, 1958, no. 106.
Ormond, Richard and Elaine Kilmurray, "John Singer Sargent: complete paintings; volume 1, The early portraits," New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1998, no. 174.
Ratcliff, Carter, "John Singer Sargent," New York: Abbeville Press, 1982.
McKibbin, David, "Sargent's Boston," Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1956.
Montgomery, Elizabeth Miles, "American Impressionists," New York, NY: Crescent Books, 1991, pg. 90.
"Taft Museum: European and American Paintings," New York, NY: Hudson Hills Press, 1995, pg. 295.
Image on file.
Ormond, Richard and Elaine Kilmurray, "John Singer Sargent: complete paintings; volume 1, The early portraits," New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1998, pg. 180.
Ormond, Richard, "John Singer Sargent: paintings, drawings, watercolors," New York: Harper & Row, 1970, pl. 55.
Montgomery, Elizabeth Miles, "American Impressionists," New York, NY: Crescent Books, 1991, pg. 90.
"Taft Museum: European and American Paintings," New York, NY: Hudson Hills Press, 1995, pg. 295.
(Lower right:) John S. Sargent / Bournemouth 1887 signed
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Summary:
Full-length portrait of Robert Louis Stevenson seated in a wicker armchair which is on a fur rug. His legs are crossed over the knee and he holds a cigarette in his right hand. A cabinet is behind him.
