John Singer Sargent Painting

Henry Tonks (English, 1862–1937)

1918

Medium/TechniqueWatercolor and graphite pencil on paper

DimensionsSheet: 35.6 x 33.7 cm (14 x 13 1/4 in.)

Credit LineThe John Singer Sargent Archive—Gift of Jan and Warren Adelson

Accession number2014.2252

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ClassificationsWatercolors

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InscriptionsIn brown ink, b.c.: To Lieut General Sir Aylmer Haldane commanding 6th Army Corps in memory of days spent in that Corps at the most glorious moment in the history of the British Army from H.T. Sept 1918; l.r.: By Prof Henry Tonks Slade Prof; verso: By Professor Tonks Slade Professor. Inscription by Sir Aylmer Haldane on label previously attached to backboard: Prof Tonks and Mr. John Sargent lived at Arles during part of 1918, when they were occupied in sketching, at a time when I was commanding the VIth British Army Corps in and about that city A. Haldane, General.

ProvenanceSeptember, 1918, given by the artist to Sir James Aylmer Lowthorpe Haldane (b. 1862 – d. 1950), Gleneagles, Scotland and London; given by Haldane to an anonymous collector; March 23, 1995, consigned by the son of that collector, Christie's, London (sale 5362), lot 1, to Warren Adelson, Scarborough, NY; 2014, gift of Jan and Warren Adelson to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 10, 2014)