Where no specific indication appears, paintings and drawings are in private collections, for which permit of reproduction has already been granted.
0.1 John S. Sargent, A Venetian Interior, oil on canvas, cm. 64.8 × 80.7 (1898), Royal Academy of Arts, London XVI
1.1 Photography of Ralph W. Curtis painting 6
1.2 Ralph W. Curtis, Acqua Santa, oil on canvas, cm. 220 × 138 (1885) 7
1.3 Ralph W. Curtis, Scirocco, oil on canvas, cm. 220 × 138 (1885) 10
1.4 Ralph W. Curtis, En gondole (Drifting with the Tide or Drifting on the Lagoon), oil on canvas, cm. 64 × 94 (1884), Keny Galleries, Columbus, Ohio 11
1.5 Ralph W. Curtis, The Kerr sisters, Preparatory drawing for Scirocco, sketchbook 13
1.6 Ralph W. Curtis, Madge Kerr, Preparatory drawing for Scirocco 14
1.7 Ralph W. Curtis, Dessin de l’artiste (Gazette des Beaux Arts, I, 1886, p. 465) 15
1.8 Ralph W. Curtis, Vue de Venise (A Street in Venice), oil on canvas, cm. 118.11 × 79.69 (1880). Photography courtesy of Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York 18
1.9 Ralph W. Curtis, Une fainéante venitienne, drawing, sketchbook 19
1.10 Ralph W. Curtis, Une fainéante venitienne, oil on canvas 19
1.11 Ralph W. Curtis, Return from the Lido, oil on canvas, cm. 74 × 142 (1884), Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston 20
1.12 Ralph W. Curtis, The Garden, oil on canvas cm. 85.09 × 90.17 (1884), initially at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, then Berry-Hill Galleries 20
1.13 Ralph W. Curtis, copy of one of Tintoretto’s horsemen in the San Rocco Crucifixion 23
2.1 The Harvard Lampoon, Houghton Library, Harvard University, Hathi Trust 29
2.2 The Founders, Houghton Library, Harvard University, Hathi Trust 30
2.3 Curtis’s “Goodies”, The Harvard Lampoon, Houghton Library, Harvard University, Hathi Trust 31
2.4 Curtis’s “Harvard in 1976”, The Harvard Lampoon, Houghton Library, Harvard University, Hathi Trust 32
2.5 Daniel Sargent Curtis, The Steeple-Chase, brown pen and ink (1875) 34
2.6 Daniel Sargent Curtis, Between the races, brown pen and ink (1875) 34
2.7 Augustus St. Gaudens, The Robert Gould Shaw Memorial, Boston, bronze sculpture on Boston Common 37
3.1 John S. Sargent, Portrait of Carolus Duran, oil on canvas, cm. 116.8 × 95.9 (1879). Courtesy of the Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts, USA 40
3.2 John S. Sargent, Portrait of Chadwick, oil on canvas, cm. 33.7 × 25.1 (1880), Collection of the Martin Andersen-Gracia Andersen Foundation Inc., on long-term loan to the Orlando Museum of Art 41
3.3 John S. Sargent, Ralph Curtis on the beach at Scheveningen, oil on canvas, cm. 27,9 × 35,6 (1880), High Museum, Atlanta 42
3.4 Ralph W. Curtis, copy of the figure of Colonel Claeszoon Loo, oil on canvas (1880), detail from Assembly of the Civic Guard of St Adrian at Haarlem by Franz Hals 44
3.5 Franz Hals, Assembly of the Civic Guard of St Adrian at Haarlem by Franz Hals, Franz Hals Museum, Haarlem 44
3.6 Ralph W. Curtis, A Beer-garden, Munich, sketchbook 45
3.7 Portrait of Mrs. Bronson, oil on board, c.1885 Florence, Private Collection 48
3.8 Ralph W. Curtis, Portrait of Robert Browning, oil on canvas, cm. 27.9 × 20.3 (1881), Armstrong Library of Baylor University, Waco, Texas 52
3.9 Ralph W. Curtis, Spanish Dancer, sketchbook 55
3.10 Ralph W. Curtis, Spanish Dancer, drawing, cm. 14 × 19.5. Photography courtesy of Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York 55
4.1 Gustavo Simoni, Scene of the Market at Tlemcen 58
4.2 Gustavo Simoni, The Favourite 59
4.3 Gustavo Simoni, The Mosque at Tlemcen 59
4.4 Ralph W. Curtis, Profile of Ariana Curtis 61
5.1 Photography of the ballroom (“cameròn”) of Palazzo Barbaro (black and white) 65
5.2 Photography of the “cameròn” of Palazzo Barbaro (colour) 66
5.3 Walter Gay, An Interior in Venice, oil on canvas, cm. 90.4 × 100.3 (1902), Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 68
5.4 Daniel Sargent Curtis, The Misses Montalba in mourning, at Venice, looking like felzes on end. Drawing. Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana 71
5.5 Ralph W. Curtis, Sketch of Rob[er]t Browning’s Funeral Barge, pencil on the flyleaf of a book (1889) 73
5.6 Ralph W. Curtis, Sketch of Robert Browning’s Funeral Barge, brown ink pen and brush (1889) 73
6.1 Ralph W. Curtis, Washerwomen in Venice, watercolour, 12 × 17 ½ in. (1883) 77
6.2 Ralph W. Curtis, Venetian Market, oil on canvas, cm. 22.9 × 36.8. Photography courtesy of Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York 77
6.3 Ralph W. Curtis, Il Ponte della of Paglia, oil on canvas 78
6.4 Ralph W. Curtis, Italian or Spanish Girl, oil on canvas, cm. 52.1 × 35.6. Photography courtesy of Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York 78
6.5 Ralph W. Curtis, James McNeill Whistler at a party, oil on canvas (1880) 81
6.6 Ralph W. Curtis, Nocturne at Mrs. Bronson’s (Whistler), graphite (1880) 82
6.7 Frank Duveneck, Ralph Curtis, oil on canvas, cm. 110 × 69.8 (1878), Curtis Galleries, Minneapolis 84
6.8 Ralph Curtis in tableau vivant: dressed up as an Incroyable, watercolor, 25 December 1882 87
6.9 John S. Sargent, Ariana Curtis, oil on canvas, cm. 71 × 53 (1882), Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Gift from the Samuel H. Kress Study Collection, 1960.0059 90
7.1 The Esposizione Nazionale Artistica della Città di Venezia, 1887, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana 93
7.2 The Jury of the Esposizione, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana 93
7.3 Antonio Mancini, Portrait of Daniel Sargent Curtis, oil on canvas, cm. 91.5 × 67, 1880s 96
7.4 Map of the Esposizione Nazionale Artistica della Città di Venezia, 1887, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana 98
7.5 Antonio Mancini, Portrait of John L. Gardner, oil on canvas, cm. 104 × 74, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston 102
7.6 Antonio Mancini, Portrait of Ariana Curtis, cm. 58.4 × 43, pastel (1895) 103
7.7 Ralph W. Curtis, Spanish Girls, sketchbook 104
7.8 Ralph W. Curtis, Tanger, cm. 1.76 × 2.81, oil on canvas 105
7.9 Ralph W. Curtis, Achmet, sketchbook 106
7.10 Ralph W. Curtis, Landscape and Arabian knights, sketchbook 107
7.11 Ralph W. Curtis, Arabian drawing, sketchbook 107
7.12 Ralph W. Curtis, Arabian Knights, sketchbook 108
7.13 Ralph W. Curtis, Arabs smoking, sketchbook 109
8.1 John S. Sargent, Portrait of Isabella Stewart Gardner, oil on canvas, cm. 190 × 80 (1888), Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston 111
8.2 Letter by Curtis with the drawing of the Ensign carrier by Mancini, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston 114
8.3 Ralph Curtis, San Francesco del Deserto, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston 117
8.4 Ralph W. Curtis, Campo Santo Stefano 123
9.1 Ralph W. Curtis, Japanese Watercolour 127
9.2 Ralph W. Curtis, Kabuki, watercolour 127
9.3 Ralph W. Curtis, The Japanese girl, sketchbook 128
9.4 Ralph W. Curtis, Japanese girl in the River, sketchbook 129
9.5 Ralph W. Curtis, Souvenir de Tokio, sketchbook 129
9.6 Ralph W. Curtis, Japanese Park, sketchbook 130
9.7 Ralph W. Curtis, Street in Japan, sketchbook 130
9.8 Ralph W. Curtis, Japanese Tea-House, watercolour, cm. 32 × 50, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston 131
9.9 Ralph W. Curtis, Japanese Lanterns 131
9.10 Ralph W. Curtis, Dehli, sketchbook 134
9.11 Ralph W. Curtis, Street at Hyderabad, Dacca, India, sketchbook 134
9.12 Ralph W. Curtis, Agra, sketchbook 135
9.13 Ralph W. Curtis, The Ganges, India, sketchbook 135
9.14 Ralph W. Curtis, Taj Majal 136
9.15 Ralph W. Curtis, Taj Majal 136
9.16 Ralph W. Curtis, Taj Majal 137
9.17 Ralph W. Curtis, Taj Majal 137
10.1 Drawing by Lisette Colt 140
10.2 Drawing by Lisette Colt 140
10.3 Drawing by Lisette Colt 140
10.4 Ralph W. Curtis, The Morosini Wedding 141
10.5 Ralph W. Curtis, Parisian Woman, I Tatti 143
10.6 Ralph W. Curtis, Lisa Curtis, oil on canvas, cm. 115 × 55 (1899?) 144
10.7 John S. Sargent, Mrs. Curtis and her daughter Sylvia, watercolour, cm. 34.3 × 49.5 (1902) 145
10.8 Château de Sarlabot (postcard) 147
10.9 John S. Sargent, Portrait of Henry James, oil on canvas, cm. 85.1 × 67.3 (1913) National Portrait Gallery, London 155
10.10 Photo of the damaged portrait of Henry James. Photography, Royal Academy of Arts, London 155
10.11 Photo of Curtis at the waterdoor of the Palazzo Barbaro 157
11.1 Ralph W. Curtis, Venetian bragozzi (boats) 169
12.1 Ralph W. Curtis, Boats in Venice. Watercolor 176
13.1 Ippolito Caffi, Bombardment at Marghera 25 May 1849, 1849 (Venice, Ca’ Pesaro-Galleria Internazionale d’Arte Moderna, Virginia Missano Caffi bequest to the Museo Correr 1888, oil on board, cm 25 × 43, inv. 4515) 177
13.2 James Abbott Mc Neill Whistler, Venice: a canal, 1879 (Venice, Ca’ Pesaro-Galleria Internazionale d’Arte Moderna, Gift of the artist, 1897, etching, mm. 198 × 292, inv. 62) 182
13.3 Ippolito Caffi, Venice: Feast on the via Eugenia, 1840 (Venice, Ca’ Pesaro-Galleria Internazionale d’Arte Moderna, Virginia Missano Caffi bequest to the Museo Correr 1888, oil on cardboard, cm. 27 × 42, inv. 1813) 187
13.4 Ippolito Caffi, Venice: Carnival and Bengala fires, 1848–49 (Venice, Ca’ Pesaro-Galleria Internazionale d’Arte Moderna, Virginia Missano Caffi bequest to the Museo Correr 1888, inv. 1479) 189
13.5 Antonio Mancini, Portrait of the father, 1905 (Venice, Ca’ Pesaro-Galleria Internazionale d’Arte Moderna, Gift Edoardo Franchetti, 1897, oil on canvas, cm. 100 × 61, Purchased at the 1905 Venice Biennale, inv. 0258) 193
13.6 Ettore Tito, On the Lagoon, 1897 (Venice, Ca’ Pesaro-Galleria Internazionale d’Arte Moderna, Gift Edoardo Franchetti, 1897, oil on canvas, cm. 109 × 121, inv. 0010) 198
