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The sitter and her husband, the painter Charles Gifford Dyer, were part of an expatriate community of American artists that lived and worked in Europe in the late 19th century. John Singer Sargent painted this portrait during his first extended stay in Venice as a professional artist. Rather than a formal commission, the work likely served as a souvenir of friendship and shared experiences. Its relatively small scale and the background\u2019s thin, quick brushwork suggest that Sargent completed the canvas in a single sitting. The painting\u2019s dark tones and limited palette are reminiscent of Spanish masters such as Diego Vel\u00e1zquez, whom Sargent looked to in particular during his student years in the late 1870s, and indeed throughout his career.<\/p>\n","short_description":"The subject of this painting, Mary Anthony, and her husband, the painter Charles Gifford Dyer, were part of an expatriate community of American artists who lived and worked in Europe in the late 19th century. Sargent painted this portrait during his first extended stay in Venice as a professional artist. Rather than a formal commission, the work likely served as a souvenir of friendship and shared experiences.","dimensions":"62.2 \u00d7 43.8 cm (24 1\/2 \u00d7 17 1\/4 in.)","dimensions_detail":[{"depth":null,"width":43,"height":62,"diameter":null,"clarification":null}],"medium_display":"Oil on canvas","inscriptions":"Signed, upper left: \"To my friend, Mrs. Dyer. John S. Sargent. Venice. 1880\"","credit_line":"Friends of American Art Collection","catalogue_display":null,"publication_history":"Milwaukee Art Institute, Catalogue of an Exhibition of Forty Paintings Presented to the Art Institute of Chicago by the Friends of American Art<\/em>, exh. cat. (Milwaukee Art Institute, 1925), n.p., cat. 31 (ill.), as Mrs. Dyer<\/em>.\n\nHomer Saint-Gaudens, ed., Survey of American Painting<\/em>, exh. cat. (Carnegie Institute, Department of Fine Arts, 1940), n.p., cat. 194.\n\nJudith A. Barter, et al., The Age of American Impressionism: Masterpieces from the Art Institute of Chicago<\/em> (Art Institute of Chicago, 2011), cat. 74.\n\nAnnelise K. Madsen, et al., John Singer Sargent and Chicago's Gilded Age<\/em>, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 2018), 17,\n26\u201327, 69, 76, 121, 133, 203, 209, 211, cat. 8, fig. 6 (ill.).","exhibition_history":"Art Institute of Chicago, Special Exhibition of the Works in the Friends of American Art Collection, May 15\u2013June 15, 1919, cat. 8.\n\nNew York, Grand Central Galleries, Retrospective Exhibition of Important Works of John Singer Sargent, Feb. 23\u2013Apr. 6, 1924, cat. 49.\n\nMilwaukee Art Institute, An Exhibition of Forty Paintings Presented to the Art Institute of Chicago by the Friends of American Art<\/em>, Mar. 1\u201329, 1925, cat. 31, as Mrs. Dyer<\/em>.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, A Survey of American Painting from the Permanent Collection of the Art Institute, July 21\u2013Oct. 9, 1932.\n\nMuseum of Modern Art, American Painting and Sculpture 1862\u20131932, Oct. 31, 1932\u2013Jan. 31, 1933, cat. 90.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress: Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture<\/em><\/a>, May 23\u2013Oct. 31, 1933, cat. 476.\n\nDe Young Memorial Museum, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Exhibition of American Painting, June 7\u2013July 7, 1935, cat. 194.\n\nPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania Museum of Art, Problems of Portraiture, Oct. 16\u2013Nov. 28, 1937; Washington, DC, Phillips Memorial Gallery, Dec. 6, 1937\u2013Jan. 3, 1938.\n\nNew York, Museum of Modern Art, Art in Our Times, May\u2013Oct. 1939, cat. 46.\n\nPittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, Survey of American Painting<\/em>, Oct. 24\u2013Dec. 15, 1940, cat. 194.\n\nMilwaukee Art Museum, Six Centuries of Portrait Masterpieces, Oct. 2\u2013Nov. 15, 1942.\n\nSpringfield, MA, Museum of Fine Arts, Fifteen Fine Paintings, Oct. 7\u2013Nov. 7, 1948.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, Sargent, Whistler, and Mary Cassatt, Jan. 14\u2013Feb. 25, 1954, cat. 43; New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Mar. 25\u2013May 23, 1954.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, Two Centuries of American Art, 1750-1950<\/em><\/a>, Oct. 1, 1959\u2013Jan. 10, 1960, no cat. [downloadable checklist available].\n\nNew York, World's Fair, Gallery at the Better Living Center, Four Centuries of American Masterpieces, May 22\u2013Oct. 18, 1964, cat. 25.\n\nNew York, Portraits Inc., Portraits of Yesterday and Today, Apr. 23\u2013May 21, 1968, cat. 73.\n\nNew York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 19th\u2013Century America, Paintings and Sculpture, an Exhibition in Celebration of the Hundredth Anniversary of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Apr. 16\u2013Sept. 7, 1970, cat. 175.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, Art at the Time of the Centennial<\/em><\/a>, June 19\u2013Aug. 15, 1976, no cat., as Portrait of Mrs. Charles Gifford Dyer<\/em>.\n\nAlbi, France, Mus\u00e9e Toulouse\u2013Lautrec, Tresors Impressionistes du Mus\u00e9e de Chicago, cat. 54.\n\nNew York, Whitney Museum of American Art, John Singer Sargent, Oct. 7, 1986\u2013Jan. 4, 1987; Art Institute of Chicago, Feb. 7\u2013Apr. 19, 1987.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, John Singer Sargent and Chicago\u2019s Gilded Age<\/em><\/a>, July 1\u2013Sept. 30, 2018, cat. 8.","provenance_text":"The artist, London; given to Mary Anthony Dyer (born 1848; also Mrs. Charles Gifford Dyer), 1880. 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