About This Artwork

John Singer Sargent
American, 1856-1925

Olive Trees, Corfu, n.d.

Watercolor and gouache, with scraping, over touches of pen and blue ink, on cream wove paper
356 x 508 mm
Signed recto, along lower right margin: "John S. Sargent, Corfu"
Olivia Shaler Swan Memorial Collection, 1933.505

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Ownership History

Annie Swan Coburn (1856-1932), Chicago, by November 1932 [collection inventory]; given to the Art Institute, 1933.