Water Carriers on the Nile

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Arts of the Americas

1891

John Singer Sargent (American, 1856–1925)

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Department: Arts of the Americas

Artist: John Singer Sargent
Title: Water Carriers on the Nile
Place: United States (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1891
Medium: Oil on canvas
Inscriptions: Stamped on verso: "JSS"
Dimensions: 54.3 × 65.4 cm (21 3/8 × 25 3/4 in.)
Credit Line: Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Collection
Reference Number: 1935.445
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Donelson F. Hoopes and Hermann Warner Williams, The Private World of John Singer Sargent, exh. cat. (Plainview, NY: Shorewood Publishers, 1964), cat. 55.
Annelise K. Madsen, et al., John Singer Sargent and Chicago’s Gilded Age, exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2018), 127, 129, 204, cat. 23, fig. 106 (ill.).

Washington, DC, Corcoran Gallery of Art, The Private World of John Singer Sargent, Apr. 18–June 14, 1964, cat. 55; Cleveland Museum of Art, July 7–Aug. 16, 1964; MA, Worcester Art Museum, Sept. 17–Nov. 1, 1964; Utica, NY, Munson–Williams–Proctor Institute, Nov. 15, 1964–Jan. 3, 1965.
Art Institute of Chicago, John Singer Sargent and Chicago’s Gilded Age, July 1–Sept. 30, 2018, cat. 23.

Christie, Manon & Woods, London, [“Catalogue of Pictures and Water Colour Drawings by J.S. Sargent, R.A. and Works by Other Artists,” no. 131] July 24, 1925; the Cooling Galleries, London, 1925; Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Worcester, Chicago, 1925; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1935.

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