John Singer Sargent

Mathilde Townsend



John Singer Sargent - Mathilde Townsend



John Singer Sargent
Mathilde Townsend
1907
153.3 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)

External links

National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. Accession number 1952.3.1

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