Details

Title

Cervino

Artist/Maker

John Singer Sargent (American, 1856–1925)

Date

after 1900

Medium

Watercolor on paper

Dimensions

22 1/2 x 28 1/4 inches

Credit

Gift of Highland Vineyard Foundation in memory of Harriet and Elliott Goldstein

Accession #

2010.213

On View

Currently not on view

The expatriate American artist John Singer Sargent traveled to the Alps almost every year between 1900 and the outbreak of World War I in 1914. Cervino was likely painted on one of these annual excursions to the mountainous region along the borders of Italy and Switzerland. He painted there in both oil and watercolor, the latter often used for less formal, on-the-spot renderings.