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John Singer Sargent Painting

Henry Tonks (English, 1862–1937)
1918

Medium/Technique Watercolor and graphite pencil on paper
Dimensions Sheet: 35.6 x 33.7 cm (14 x 13 1/4 in.)
Credit Line The John Singer Sargent Archive—Gift of Jan and Warren Adelson
Accession Number2014.2252
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsWatercolors

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)