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An Interior in Venice, (painting). Artist:  Sargent, John Singer, 1856-1925, painter. Title:  An Interior in Venice, (painting). Dates:  1898. Digital Reference:  Medium:  Oil on canvas. Dimensions:  26 x 33 in. (66 x 83.5 cm). Inscription:  (Lower left:) John S. Sargent 1899 signed Description:  Four figures are taking tea in the elaborately decorated salon of the Palazzo Barbaro, an apartment where the Curtis family lived. Ralph Wormerly Curtis (1854-1922) and his wife, Lisa De Wolfe Colt Curtis (1871-1933) stand together at left, in the background. Mrs. Curtis holds a tea cup and reaches down to a small table on which is a tea tray. Mr. Curtis casually sits on a tabletop, with one hand on his hip. Ralph Curtis's parents, Ariana Wormerly Curtis (1833-1922) and Daniel Sargent Curtis (1825-1908), sit together in the right foreground. Daniel Curtis reads a newspaper while Ariana Curtis sits and looks out toward the viewer. Paintings adorn the walls and chandeliers hang from the ceiling. Subject:  Portrait group -- Family Portrait male -- Curtis, Ralph Wormeley -- Full length Portrait female -- Curtis, Ralph Wormeley, Mrs. (Lisa de Wolfe Colt) -- Full length Portrait male -- Curtis, Daniel Sargent -- Knee length Portrait female -- Curtis, Daniel Sargent, Mrs. (Ariana Randolph Wormeley) -- Knee length Architecture interior -- Domestic -- Palazzo Barbaro Architecture interior -- Domestic -- House Recreation -- Leisure -- Eating & Drinking Object -- Art Object -- Painting Object -- Written Matter -- Newspaper Recreation -- Leisure -- Reading Object Type:  Painting Owner:  Royal Academy of Arts, London, England Provenance:  Presented by Sargent, John Singer, 1899. Remarks:  Presented by the artist to the Royal Academy of Arts in 1899 as his diploma work. References:  Ormond, Richard and Elaine Kilmurray, "John Singer Sargent: complete paintings; volume 2, Portraits of the 1890s," New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2002, no. 367. Ormond, Richard, "John Singer Sargent: paintings, drawings, watercolors," New York: Harper & Row, 1970. Mathews, Nancy Mowll, and Elizabeth Kennedy, "Prendergast in Italy," London; New York: Merrell in association with Williams College Museum of Art and the Terra Foundation for American Art, 2009, pg. 19. Illustration:  Image on file. Ormond, Richard and Elaine Kilmurray, "John Singer Sargent: complete paintings; volume 2, Portraits of the 1890s," New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2002, pg. 155. Mathews, Nancy Mowll, and Elizabeth Kennedy, "Prendergast in Italy," London; New York: Merrell in association with Williams College Museum of Art and the Terra Foundation for American Art, 2009, pg. 19. Note:  The information provided about this artwork was compiled as part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture database, designed to provide descriptive and location information on artworks by American artists in public and private collections worldwide. Repository:  Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 970, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012 Control Number:  IAP 81890089   Copy/Holding information Smithsonian AmericanArt Museum Control Number   Inventory of American Paintings 81890089 Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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