John Singer Sargent, Portrait of Lisa Colt Curtis, 1898
John Singer Sargent (American, 1856-1925)
Portrait of Lisa Colt Curtis, 1898
Oil on canvas, 86 5/16 x 41 1/4 in. (219.3 x 104.8 cm.)
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund 1998.168
A major work by Sargent was also a priority. We finally landed this splashy portrait showing Lisa Curtis, an heir to the Colt firearms fortune. Sargent gave it to her as a wedding present and for years it hung in the family’s pied a terre in Venice, the Palazzo Barbaro.
Bibliography
Henry Adams, What’s American about American Art? A Gallery Tour of the Cleveland Museum of Art, Hudson Hills Press, New York, 2008, pp. 106-07, John Singer Sargent, Portrait of Lisa Colt Curtis, 1898.