John Singer Sargent
Mathilde Townsend
1907153.3 x 102.2 cm
Oil on canvas
Signed upper left: John S. Sargent
Dated upper right: 1907
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Gift of the sitter, Mrs Sumner Welles
Literature
Richard Ormond and Elaine Kilmurray, John Singer Sargent, New Haven and London, 2003, nr. 535
Provenance
The sitter's mother, Mrs. Richard H. Townsend (died 1931, née Mary Scott), Washington, D.C.
by inheritance to the sitter, Mathilde Townsend Gerry Welles (1888-1949), Washington, D.C.
bequest 1949 to NGA, with life interest to her husband, Sumner Welles (1892-1961)
Other works by John Singer Sargent
Antonio Mancini
c. 1898
c. 1898
M. Carey Thomas
1899
1899
Incensing the Veil
1880
1880
Campo die Frari, Venice
c. 1880-82
c. 1880-82
Mrs William Shakespeare
c. 1896
c. 1896