Cleveland Museum of Art
Portrait of Lisa Colt Curtis
John Singer SargentLinkedCulture matchlcp-999e50c15063
- Date
- 1898
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Culture
- America
- Department
- American Painting and Sculpture
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 160289
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
One of the most sought-after painters of his era, Sargent achieved considerable critical and financial success portraying cosmopolitan members of high society on both sides of the Atlantic. Here, the artist depicts an acquaintance—a relative of the Colt firearms family—who had recently married his distant cousin Ralph. In her portrait, Curtis wears an elegant satin dress and poses as if she were welcoming guests into her palatial Venetian home. The painting apparently was a wedding gift to the couple by the artist; its inscription at the top right reads, "To Ralph and Mrs. Ralph, John S. Sargent 1898." Although known as John Singer Sargent today, he almost never used his middle name during his lifetime.
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Provenance & credit
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- Credit line
- Leonard C. Hanna Jr. Fund
- Provenance
- 1998-: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio | 1998: (Christie’s, New York, Dec. 29, 1998, private treaty sale to the Cleveland Museum of Art) | Probably 1973 - probably 1998: Patricia Curtis Viganò, Venice, Italy; Lisa Marjorie Curtis de Beaumont, France; and Ralph D. Curtis, Venice, Italy | Probably 1936 - probably 1973: Ralph Wormeley Curtis, Jr. [1909-1973] Venice, Italy, and Paris, France, by descent to his children Patricia Curtis Viganò, Lisa Marjorie Curtis de Beaumont, and Ralph D. Curtis | Probably 1933 - probably 1936: Sylvia Curtis Steinert [1899-1981], Paris and Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, France, to her brother, Ralph Wormeley Curtis, Jr. | 1898 - probably 1933: Ralph Wormeley Curtis [1854-1922] and Lisette De Wolf Colt Curtis [1867-1933], Paris and Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, France, probably by descent to their daughter Sylvia Curtis Steinert
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