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Oxen Carrara
Presented by Lord Duveen 1919
animals: mammals
Carrara
cities, towns, villages (non-UK)
countries and continents
Italy
landscape
ox
places
rocky
paper unique graphite watercolour
11 October 2002 – 5 January 2003
2003-01-05
11 October 2002 – 5 January 2003
2003-01-05
2002-10-11
Frist Center for the Visual Arts (Nashville, USA)
2002-10-11
Whistler Sargent and Steer - Frist
Tate partnerships & programmes
2 March 2012 – 15 July 2012
2012-07-15
2 March 2012 – 15 July 2012
2012-07-15
2012-03-02
Palazzo Strozzi (Florence, Italy)
2012-03-02
Americans in Florence
Loan-out
1 June 2017 – 31 October 2017
2017-10-31
1 June 2017 – 31 October 2017
2017-10-31
2017-06-01
Dulwich Picture Gallery (London, UK)
2017-06-01
Sargent's Watercolours: A New Look
Loan-out
Oxen, Carrara
support: 400 × 527 mm
frame: 650 × 762 × 17 mm
Presented by Lord Duveen 1919
<p><b>N03560</b> OXEN: CARRARA 1911–13</p>
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<p>Inscr. ‘John S. Sargent’ b.l. and ‘Carrara’ b.r.
<br/>Watercolour, 15 3/4×20 3/4 (40×53).
<br/>Presented by Lord Duveen 1920.</p>
<p>The artist had painted oxen in 1907, 1910 and 1911, but this <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/w/watercolour" title="Glossary definition for 'Watercolour'"><span>watercolour</span></a> is most likely to be contemporaneous with three <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/painting" title="Glossary definition for 'Painting'"><span>paintings</span></a> of ‘Marble Quarries at Carrara’ which Charteris dates to 1913 (1927, p.292). Mount, however, points out (1957, p.360) that the signed and dated ‘Marble Quarries at Carrara’, formerly in the Langton Douglas collection, is misdated 1913, and he includes two works of this subject under the year 1911.</p>
<p><b>Published in:</b>
<br/>Mary Chamot, Dennis Farr and Martin Butlin, <i>The Modern British Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture</i>, London 1964, II
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2004-10-05T00:00:00
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animals: mammals Carrara cities, towns, villages (non-UK) countries and continents Italy landscape ox places rocky