{"data":{"id":69780,"api_model":"artworks","api_link":"https:\/\/api.artic.edu\/api\/v1\/artworks\/69780","is_boosted":true,"title":"The Fountain, Villa Torlonia, Frascati, Italy","alt_titles":null,"thumbnail":{"lqip":"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhBAAFAPQAAC0wJi81KkA0KUJGNFNBNlRIOllJOVlOQmRXRWJcT2ptX3JjUnFtZGtzbYJ8c5CCdZGMfpicmKGckKKgnQAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACH5BAAAAAAALAAAAAAEAAUAAAURYBMNATMpwCNByeEshUAYSAgAOw==","width":4414,"height":5659,"alt_text":"Portrait of a woman in white with a bonnet perched on an architectural feature painting something to her right, a spouting water fountain, greenery, and a an ornate, low white fence behind her. Beside her, a man leans back, eying the canvas."},"main_reference_number":"1914.57","has_not_been_viewed_much":false,"boost_rank":null,"date_start":1907,"date_end":1907,"date_display":"1907","date_qualifier_title":"","date_qualifier_id":null,"artist_display":"John Singer Sargent (American, 1856\u20131925)","place_of_origin":"Frascati","description":"<p>The year 1907 was a turning point for John Singer Sargent, as he daringly stepped away from his successful career as a portraitist in favor of plein air (outdoor) painting. This lively work aptly captures that moment of transition, combining landscape and portraiture in a composition that speaks to friendship and painterly pursuits while also celebrating color, surface, and fleeting effects of light and movement. The couple is Wilfrid and Jane Emmet de Glehn, professional artists and Sargent\u2019s frequent traveling companions. Although <em>The Fountain<\/em> has the appearance of spontaneity, Sargent was frequently interrupted by rain as he worked. He thus completed it over several days, requiring his friends to pose at length.<\/p>\n","short_description":"The year 1907 was a turning point for Sargent; the sought-after portraitist stepped away from his successful portraiture career to pursue plein-air landscape painting. This work, depicting his traveling companions and fellow artists Wilfrid and Jane Emmet de Glehn, captures that moment of transition. Combining landscape and portraiture, the composition speaks to friendship and painterly pursuits while also celebrating color, light, and movement.","dimensions":"71.4 \u00d7 56.5 cm (28 1\/8 \u00d7 22 1\/4 in.)","dimensions_detail":[{"depth":null,"width":56,"height":71,"diameter":null,"clarification":null}],"medium_display":"Oil on canvas","inscriptions":"Signed recto, bototm-left, on ground, in brown paint: \"John S. Sargent\".","credit_line":"Friends of American Art Collection","catalogue_display":null,"publication_history":"Art Institute of Chicago, <em>General Catalogue of Sculpture, Paintings and Other Objects<\/em> (Art Institute of Chicago, 1910), 151, cat. 414 (ill.).\n\nGiselle D\u2019Unger, \u201cThe Chicago Beautiful\u2014Woman and Art The Vital Forces,\u201d Fine Arts Journal 30 (Jan\u2013June 1914): 302, ill.\n\n\u201cGifts of the Friends,\u201d Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 7 (Apr. 1914): 158, ill.\n\nWilliam M. R. French, <em>Art Institute of Chicago General Catalogue of Paintings, Sculpture and Other Objects in the Museum<\/em> (Art Institute of Chicago, 1914), 158, cat. 544 (ill.).\n\nThe Art Institute of Chicago Handbook of Paintings and Drawings (Art Institute of Chicago, 1920), 45.\n\nRose V.S. Berry, \u201cJohn Singer Sargent: Some of His American Work,\u201d Art and Archaeology 18 (Sept. 1924): 99 (ill.), 100.\n\nWilliam Howe Downes, John S. Sargent: His Life and Work (Boston, 1925), 62, 227, ill. f. p. 272.\n\nA Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection (Art Institute of Chicago, 1925), 152.\n\nA Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection (Art Institute of Chicago, 1932), 170.\n\nState Fair of Texas, <em>Illustrated Catalogue, Art Department, State Fair of Texas, 1933: Exhibition Showing the Changes in Painting for the Last Hundred Years in Europe and America<\/em>, exh. cat. (Dorsey Co., 1933), 22, cat. 76.\n\nJames Murray Haddow, <em>American Painting in the Manner of the Late Ninteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries<\/em>, exh. cat. (South Bend Art Association, 1948), n.p., cat. 46.\n\nCharles Merrill Mount, John Singer Sargent: A Biography (W.W. Norton, 1955), 449.\n\nPaintings in the Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago, 1961), 411.\n\nRichard Ormond, John Singer Sargent: Paintings, Drawings, Watercolors (Harper & Row, 1970), 75.\n\nTom Armstrong, \u201cThe New Field\u2013McCormick Galleries in the Art Institute of Chicago,\u201d Magazine Antiques 134, 4 (Oct. 1988): 822\u2013835, pl. 19, 835 (ill.).\n\nHolland Cotter, \u201cArtists From the New World in Love,\u201d New York Times (Sunday, Nov. 1, 1992).\n\nJames N. Wood and Teri J. Edelstein, <em>The Art Institute of Chicago: Twentieth\u2013Century Painting and Sculpture<\/em> (Art Institute of Chicago, 1996), 15.\n\nJudith A. Barter, et al., American Arts at The Art Institute of Chicago: From Colonial Times to World War I, (Art Institute of Chicago, 1998).\n\nJudith A. Barter, et al., <em>The Age of American Impressionism: Masterpieces from the Art Institute of Chicago<\/em> (Art Institute of Chicago, 2011), cat. 39.\n\nLance Mayer et al., \"American Painters on Technique: 1860\u20131945\" (J. Paul Getty Museum\/Getty Publications, 2013), cover (ill.).\n\nPaintings at the Art Institute of Chicago: Highlights of the Collection (Art Institute of Chicago\/Yale University Press, 2017), p. 89.\n\nAnnelise K. Madsen, et al., <em>John Singer Sargent and Chicago's Gilded Age<\/em>, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 2018), 16\u201317, 20, 36, 65\u201367, 69, 76, 121, 127,\n174, 204, 209, 211, cat. 34, fig. 40 (ill.).\n\nJudith H. Dobrzynski, \"Dazzling Art With a City Connection,\" The Wall Street Journal, Aug. 13, 2018, A13 (ill.).","exhibition_history":"Art Institute of Chicago, Twenty\u2013fifth Annual Exhibition of American Oil Paintings and Sculpture, Nov. 5\u2013Dec. 8, 1912, cat. 228.\n\nNew York, Grand Central Art Galleries, Retrospective Exhibition of Important Works of John Singer Sargent, Feb. 23\u2013Mar. 22, 1924, cat. 48.\n\nNew York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Memorial Exhibition of the Work of John Singer Sargent, Jan. 4\u2013Feb. 14, 1926, cat. 50.\n\nDallas, Fair Park Gallery, <em>1933 Exhibition Showing the Changes in Painting for the Last Hundred Years in Europe and America<\/em>, Oct. 7\u201322, 1933, cat. 76 (organized by the State Fair of Texas, Art Department).\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress, June 1\u2013Nov. 1, 1934, cat. 407.\n\nIN, South Bend Art Association, <em>American Painting in the Manner of the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries<\/em>, Feb. 10\u2013Mar. 31, 1948, cat. 46.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, Sargent, Whistler and Mary Cassatt, Jan. 14\u2013Feb. 25, 1954; New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Mar. 25\u2013May 23, 1954.\n\nGrand Rapids Art Museum, MI, Cassatt, Whistler, Sargent Exhibition, Sept. 15\u2013Oct. 15, 1955, cat. 27.\n\nIL, Durand Art Institute, Lake Forest College, <em>A Century of American Painting: Masterpieces Loaned by The Art Institute of Chicago<\/em>, June 10\u201316, 1957, no. 16, as <em>The Fountain, Villa Torlonia, Frascati<\/em>.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artic.edu\/exhibitions\/4071\/two-centuries-of-american-art-1750-1950\"><em>Two Centuries of American Art, 1750-1950<\/em><\/a>, Oct. 1, 1959\u2013Jan. 10, 1960, no cat. [downloadable checklist available].\n\nWashington, DC, Corcoran Gallery of Art, The Private World of John Singer Sargent, Apr. 18\u2013June 14, 1964, cat. 73; Cleveland Museum of Art, July 7\u2013Aug. 16, 1964; Worcester Art Museum, MA, Sept. 17\u2013Nov. 1, 1964; Utica, NY, Munson\u2013Williams\u2013Proctor Institute, Nov. 15, 1964\u2013Jan. 3, 1965.\n\nNew York, Whitney Museum of American Art, John Singer Sargent, Oct. 1, 1986\u2013Jan. 4, 1987, cat. 149.\n\nBoston, Museum of Fine Arts, The Lure of Italy, Sept. 16\u2013Dec. 13, 1992, cat. 44; Cleveland Museum of Art, Feb. 3\u2013Apr. 11, 1993, Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, May 23\u2013Aug. 8, 1993, cat. 44.\n\nLondon, Tate Gallery, John Singer Sargent, Oct. 15, 1998\u2013Jan. 11, 1999; Washington, DC, National Gallery, Feb. 28\u2013May 31, 1999, Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, June 23\u2013Sept. 26, 1999.\n\nStanford, CA, Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University, The Changing Garden: European and American Gardens and Parks, June 11\u2013Sept. 7, 2003.\n\nCanberra, National Gallery of Australia, The Edwardians: Secrets and Desires, Mar. 12\u2013June 14, 2004; 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