John Singer Sargent
Madame Edouard Pailleron
1879208.3 x 100.3 cm
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated lower right: John S. Sargent/Ronjoux 1879
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Corcoran Collection
Gift of Katharine McCook Knox, John A. Nevius, mr and Mrs Lansdell K. Christie
Literature
Richard Ormond and Elaine Kilmurray, John Singer Sargent Complete Paintings, New Haven and London, 1998, nr. 25
Provenance
Commissioned 1879 by Edouard Pailleron, Chambéry, France
by descent 1899 to his daughter, Marie-Louise Pailleron
by descent 1950 to her son, Henri Bourget-Pailleron
his widow
purchased 1964 by the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington
acquired 2014 by the National Gallery of Art
Other works by John Singer Sargent
A Spanish Figure
c. 1879-80
c. 1879-80
Entrance to a Mosque
1880
1880
Three Figures on a Beach
c. 1878-80
c. 1878-80
Mrs William Henry Vanderbilt
1888
1888
Violet Sargent
1889
1889