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    		• Sargent, John Singer,
     
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    		• Portrait female -- Lathom, Countess of
     
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    		• Dress -- Accessory
     
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    		• Architecture interior -- Domestic
     
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    		• Occupation -- Other
     
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    		• Painting
     
     
    The Countess of Lathom, (painting).
    Artist: 
    Sargent, John Singer, 1856-1925, painter.
    Title: 
    The Countess of Lathom, (painting).
    Dates: 
    1904.
    Digital Reference: 
    Image
    Medium: 
    Oil on canvas.
    Dimensions: 
    90 1/4 x 67 1/2 in. (229.2 x 171.5 cm).
    Inscription: 
    (Upper right:) John S. Sargent 1904 signed
    Description: 
    Full-length seated portrait of the Countess of Lathom (1869-1931) wearing a plum velvet gown with gauzy stole and a blue wrap. She wears a tiara and holds a jewelled necklace in her left hand. Ornaments and books are on a round table at left near a plinth and pillar with a draped curtain.
    Subject: 
    Portrait female -- Lathom, Countess of -- Full length
    Dress -- Accessory -- Jewelry
    Architecture interior -- Domestic
    Occupation -- Other -- Aristocrat
    Object Type: 
    Painting
    Owner: 
    Chrysler Museum of Art, 245 West Olney Road (at Mowbray Arch), Norfolk, Virginia 23510-1587 Accession Number: 71.502
    Provenance: 
    Formerly in the collection of Lathom, Second Earl of, until 1910.
    Lathom, Third Earl of, until 1930.
    Lathom, Third Earl of, Countess, until 1930
    On loan to Tate Gallery, London, England ca. 1926-1930.
    Rosenbach, A.S.W., Dr., 1930.
    Parke-Bernet, New York, New York Sale (Nov. 11-14, 1942), lot 609.
    I. B. M. Gallery of Arts and Sciences, 16 East 57th Street, New York, New York until 1968.
    Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, New York 1968.
    Block, Mimi, Mrs., New York, New York 1969.
    M. Knoedler & Co., New York, New York Sale (May 11, 1972)
    Chrysler, Walter P., Jr., 1973.
    Remarks: 
    The Countess (nee Wilma "Queenie" Pley-dell-Bouverie) married first Edward George, second Earl of Lathom in 1899. After his death in 1910, she married Lieutenant-General Sir Henry M. Lawson in 1912.
    References: 
    "Three Hundred Years of American Art in the Chrysler Museum," Norfolk, VA: Chrysler Museum at Norfolk, 1975, pg. 163.
    Ormond, Richard and Elaine Kilmurray, "John Singer Sargent: complete paintings; volume 3, The later portraits," New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2003, no. 465.
    "Realism: an American Heritage," New York: I.B.M. Gallery, 1963.
    Hirschl & Adler Galleries, 1980.
    Parke-Bernet Galleries Sale catalog: no.406, 1942.
    "The Chrysler Museum: Selections from the Permanent Collection," Norfolk, VA: The Chrysler Museum, 1982, pg. 92.
    Hagood, Martha N., and Jefferson C. Harrison, "American Art at the Chrysler Museum: Selected Paintings, Sculpture, and Drawings," Norfolk, VA: Chrysler Museum of Art, 2005, pg. 124.
    Illustration: 
    "Three Hundred Years of American Art in the Chrysler Museum," Norfolk, VA: Chrysler Museum at Norfolk, 1975, pg. 163.
    Image on file.
    Art News, Sept. 1930.
    Ormond, Richard and Elaine Kilmurray, "John Singer Sargent: complete paintings; volume 3, The later portraits," New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2003, pg. 121.
    Parke-Bernet Galleries Sale Catalog: no.406, 1942, p.123
    "The Chrysler Museum: Selections from the Permanent Collection," Norfolk, VA: The Chrysler Museum, 1982, pg. 92.
    Hagood, Martha N., and Jefferson C. Harrison, "American Art at the Chrysler Museum: Selected Paintings, Sculpture, and Drawings," Norfolk, VA: Chrysler Museum of Art, 2005, pg. 124.
    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 55450184
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