John Singer Sargent

Fishing for Oysters at Cancale



John Singer Sargent - Fishing for Oysters at Cancale



John Singer Sargent
Fishing for Oysters at Cancale
1878
41 x 61 cm
Oil on canvas
Signed lower right: J.S. SARGENT/PARIS
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Gift of Miss Mary Appleton


Literature

Catalogues raisonnés
Richard Ormond, Elaine Kilmurray, John Singer Sargent, New Haven and London, 2006, nr. 671


Exhibitions

2006 Americans in Paris 1860-1900, Nr. 62

Provenance

the artist, to Samuel Colman, Newport, R.I., and New York, by 1880
to Susan Travers, Newport, R.I., by January 1903
to Mary Appleton, Newport, R.I., New York, and Boston, December 1904 (bequest of Susan Travers)
to MFA, 1935, gift of Mary Appleton

External links

Museum of Fine Arts Accession number 35.708

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