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Cecilia Beaux and John Singer Sargent’s Portrait of Charles Martin Loeffler
(c) 2018 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
(c) 2018 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Cecilia Beaux and John Singer Sargent’s Portrait of Charles Martin Loeffler

primary (Boston, 1856 - 1945)
subject (Philadelphia, 1855 - 1942, Gloucester, Massachusetts)
subject (Florence, 1856 - 1925, London)
Date1903
Place MadeBoston, Massachusetts, United States, North America
MediumPlatinum print
Dimensions16.2 x 13.7 cm (6 3/8 x 5 3/8 in.)
ClassificationsPhotographs
Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
Accession numberARC.006295
eMuseum ID717139
EmbARK ObjectID26372
Other NumberP27w19.5
TMS Source ID10173
Last Updated8/9/24
Status
Not on view
Web CommentaryJohn Singer Sargent was the first artist-in-residence at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. During the month of April 1903 he slept in a guest room (now called the Macknight Room) and created new works of art in his temporary studio, the Gothic Room. John Templeman Coolidge, an artist and friend of Isabella’s, took several photographs of Sargent painting in the Gothic Room. One of these candid pictures shows the artist Cecilia Beaux admiring Sargent’s portrait of the composer Charles Martin Loeffler resting on the floor of the Gothic Room. It now hangs in the Yellow Room.
BibliographyNotesDavid McKibbin. Sargent's Boston, with an Essay and Biographical Summary and a Complete Check List of Sargent's Portraits (Boston, 1956), pp. 47-50, fig. 32.
Louisa Hall Tharp. Mrs. Jack: A Biography of Isabella Stewart Gardner (Boston, 1965), p. 250.
Christina Nielsen (ed.). Sargent on Location: Gardner's First Artist-in-Residence. Exh. cat. (Boston: Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 2018), ill. p. 25, fig.13, p. 57, no. 6.
ProvenanceNotesProbably a gift from John Templeman Coolidge to Isabella Stewart Gardner in 1903.