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Henry G. Marquand

1897
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 770
In February 1896 the Metropolitan’s trustees resolved to recognize the contributions to the Museum of Henry G. Marquand (1819–1902) by commissioning his portrait. Marquand had made his fortune in real estate, banking, and railroads. After 1880 he devoted himself to collecting art and to the Metropolitan Museum, to which he gave a noteworthy assemblage of old master paintings in 1889 and which he served, as its second president, from 1889 to 1902. In the portrait, which Sargent executed in his London studio during the summer of 1897, the probing gaze of the seventy-eight-year-old Marquand belies his ill health.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Henry G. Marquand
  • Artist: John Singer Sargent (American, Florence 1856–1925 London)
  • Date: 1897
  • Culture: American
  • Medium: Oil on canvas
  • Dimensions: 52 x 41 3/4 in. (132.1 x 106 cm)
  • Credit Line: Gift of the Trustees, 1897
  • Object Number: 97.43
  • Curatorial Department: The American Wing

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Wetterhorn, Grindelwald (from "Splendid Mountain Watercolours" Sketchbook), John Singer Sargent American, Watercolor and graphite on off-white wove paper, American
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Mount Pilatus, recto (from "Splendid Mountain Watercolours" Sketchbook), John Singer Sargent American, Wax crayon on off-white wove paper, American
Mount Pilatus, recto (from "Splendid Mountain Watercolours" Sketchbook)
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1870
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Mountain View, Mürren (from "Splendid Mountain Watercolours" Sketchbook)
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View from Schilthorn (from "Splendid Mountain Watercolours" Sketchbook), John Singer Sargent American, Graphite on off-white wove paper, American
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John Singer Sargent
1870

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