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John Singer Sargent
Fishing for Oysters at Cancale
Literature
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Literature
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
Other works by John Singer Sargent
Mary Turner Austin
c. 1878
Carolus-Duran
1879
Albert de Belleroche
c. 1882
Mrs John C. Tomlinson
c. 1904
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