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John Singer Sargent Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
N.B. For the sake of readability, we have organized external links into these different tabs:
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Boston Public Library
Info about the library's monumental mural by Sargent, Triumph of Religion, and its restoration
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas NEW!
(There is a "Download" link for zooming in on some works, but confusingly this may take a while to become active)
John Singer Sargent at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
4 works online
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco NEW!
Fitzwilliam Museum at the University of Cambridge, UK
Kress Foundation Collection
(Look for the "Image" links for super high resolution scans)
Portrait of Mrs. Daniel Sargent Curtis, 1882
Louvre Museum Graphic Art Database, Paris (in French) 
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW! 
Musée d'Orsay, Paris
Artworks in the museum's collections database
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas 
Mrs. Joshua Montgomery Sears (Sarah Choate Sears), 1899
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW!
Drawings collection online
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW!
Sculpture collection online
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW!
Watercolor collection online
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW!
Paintings collection online
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh NEW!
National Gallery, London, UK
Lord Ribblesdale
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW!
Includes a biography of the artist
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW!
Gondoliers' Siesta, 1905
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
5 works online by Sargent
Royal Academy of Arts Collection, London, UK
John Singer Sargent at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
"Director's Choice" discussion of Elizabeth Winthrop Chanler
John Singer Sargent at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.
4 works online
Tate Gallery, London, UK
The Royal Collection, London, UK
Aberdeen Art Gallery and Museums, Scotland
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts
Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales, Cardiff
Hercules Brabazon Brabazon
Amon Carter Museum, Texas
Alice Vanderbilt Shepard
Arkell Museum at Canajoharie, New York NEW!
Head of an Italian Woman, ca.1881
Ashmolean Museum at the University of Oxford, UK
Beaverbrook Art Gallery, New Brunswick
Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama
Portrait of Lady Helen Vincent, Viscountess d'Abernon, 1904
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Maine (Zoomable)
3 works by the artist
Britten-Pears Foundation, Aldeburgh, England
Portrait of Percy Grainger
Brooklyn Museum, New York City
Info about a 2004 exhibition: Great Expectations: John Singer Sargent Painting Children
Brooklyn Museum, New York City
Brooklyn Museum/Luce Center for American Art, New York City
(Undocumented Feature: In many cases the raw JPG image is much larger than displayed on the screen)
Canton Museum of Art, Ohio
On The Terrace
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Cedarhurst Center For The Arts, Mt. Vernon, Illinois
Ilex Wood at Majorca with Blue Pigs, 1908 (scroll right to image 17)
Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio NEW!
A Venetian Woman
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts
Fumée d'Ambre Gris (Smoke of Ambergris), 1880
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts
Portrait of Carolus-Duran, 1879
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Colby College Museum of Art, Maine
Study of Three Figures, ca.1876-78
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
4 works online
Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK
Monument to John Singer Sergent, 1925
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas
A new museum which, when we last checked, had not yet opened to the public
2 works online
Cummer Museum of Art, Jacksonville, Florida
In the Alps, 1911
Currier Gallery of Art, New Hampshire
4 works online
Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Massachusetts
Campo S. Agnese, Venice, ca.1890
Denver Art Museum / Berger Collection, Colorado
Rosina Ferrara, Head of a Capri Girl, 1878
Dublin City Gallery | The Hugh Lane, Dublin, Ireland NEW!
Frick Art and Historical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Mrs. Charles Thursby, ca.1897-98
Grey Art Gallery at New York University
Click on "Images" at the top of the screen to see 7 works on paper
Hammer Museum, California
Dr. Pozzi at Home, 1881
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia
Portrait of Ralph Curtis on the Beach at Scheveningen, 1880
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C. NEW!
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska
Portrait of Mrs. A. Lawrence Rotch, 1903
Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, Laurel, Mississippi
Los Angeles County Museum of Art NEW!
Manchester City Art Gallery, UK
Mattatuck Museum, Waterbury, Connecticut
Meadows Museum at Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas
Val d'Aosta: A Man Fishing, ca.1906
Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, New York
Mrs. Charles Hunter
Mrs. Shakespeare
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin
The Smoky Thames
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota
The Birthday Party, 1887
Luxembourg Gardens at Twilight, 1879
Museum of the National Academy of Design, New York City
Claude Monet, ca.1887
Self-Portrait, 1892
National Gallery of Victoria, Australia
3 works online
National Museums Liverpool, UK
Vespers
National Museums Liverpool, UK
On His Holidays, 1901
National Portrait Gallery, London, UK
Orlando Museum of Art, Florida
Basin with Sailor, Villa Vizcaya, Miami, Florida
Peabody Essex Museum, Massachusetts
1 work online: Sarah Lawrence Brooks (row 1/image 5). Click on the little "i" on the detail images to bring up information about the works.
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
Philadelphia Museum of Art NEW!
Portland Museum of Art, Maine
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey
Reading Public Museum, Pennsylvania
Man Reading
Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art
Rio di Santa Maria Formosa, Venice (see middle row)
San Diego Museum of Art, California NEW!
Seattle Art Museum
Sheffield Galleries & Museums, UK
The Misses Vickers, 1884
Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, Nebraska
Jean Joseph Marie Carris
John Singer Sargent at the Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Washington D.C.
Photograph of Sargent in his Paris studio with the painting Madame X
John Singer Sargent at the Smithsonian Sackler-Freer Gallery, Washington D.C.
Breakfast in the Loggia
Southampton City Art Gallery, England
Spencer Museum of Art at the University of Kansas
Portrait of Mrs. Daniel Curtis
State Museums of Florence Digital Archive, Italy
Terra Foundation for American Art, Chicago NEW!
6 works online (click "Artwork by This Artist" to see the complete list)
John Singer Sargent at the The British Museum, London, UK
The Faringdon Collection at Buscot Park, Oxfordshire, UK
Portrait study of Lady Norah Smith
The Huntington Library, California
The Newark Museum, New Jersey
Mrs. Charles Thursby, 1897-98
The Walters Art Museum, Maryland NEW!
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
(Images are zoomable; click on the "expand" icon below the detail image)
Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio
(Click the "American 1700-1900" category, then see the work in the first row of thumbnails)
Tyne & Wear Museums Database, England
University of Delaware Museums
Sketches for mural for the Library of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond
Mrs. Albert Vickers, 1884
Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Portrait of L.A. Harrison, Esquire
Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg, Pennsylvania
Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts
Venetian Water Carriers, 1880-82
Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts
Muddy Alligators, 1917
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Art Fund for UK Museums
Quite a few works online
Joconde Database of French Museum Collections (in French)
La Fayette Database of American Art in French National Collections
Smithsonian American Art Museum National Art Inventories
List of works nationwide from two sources: the Inventory of American Paintings Executed before 1914 and the Inventory of American Sculpture (only a few percent of listings have an accompanying image)
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on John Singer Sargent 
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 100-word preview only. Troubleshooting
RKD Netherlands Institute for Art History
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Biographical info
Antiques & Fine Art Magazine
Capri, 1878
Antiques & Fine Art Magazine
4 paintings online, including a study for Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose
Antiques & Fine Art Magazine
Ricordi di Capri, 1878
Antiques & Fine Art Magazine
2 drawings by John Singer Sargent
Antiques & Fine Art Magazine
"John Singer Sargent and His American Contempotraries in Venice"
ARTnews
"The Hidden Sargent"
PBS
Ray Carney: Essays on American Painting
2 essays on Sargent
Resource Library Magazine
John Singer Sargent: The Early Portraits
Resource Library Magazine
Sargent: The Late Landscapes
Resource Library Magazine
John Singer Sargent at the Portland Museum of Art
Resource Library Magazine
A Sargent Celebration at the Huntington
Resource Library Magazine
John Singer Sargent in Houston Collections
Resource Library Magazine
American and European Masters from the Museum Collections
Resource Library Magazine
John Alfred Parsons Millet, 1892
Salon Magazine
"Trevor Fairbrother's new book shows that John Singer Sargent was not only a painter of the rich but a sensualist in everything he did."
Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Washington D.C.
The John Singer Sargent letters
Spartacus Educational Books
War Artists of W.W.I.
The Guardian Newspaper, UK
Essay on Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose, 1885-86
The Guardian Newspaper, UK
Essay on Ellen Terry as Lady Macbeth, 1889
The New York Observer
"Beyond the Portraits-The Watercolor Sargent", article by Hilton Kramer
The New York Observer
"It's Time to Forgive Sargent For Making It Big in 1880's", article by Hilton Kramer
Wikiquote, compendium of quotations from the Wikimedia Foundation
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