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Portrait of Tito signed, dated and inscribed 'Beckwith/Paris 1878' (lower left) oil on canvas 251/4 x 20 in. (64.1 x 50.8 cm.) PROVENANCE Sotheby's, New York, 29 May 1986, lot 139, illustrated. David Daniels, New York, acquired from the above sale. NOTES James Carroll Beckwith was a lifelong friend and contemporary of John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) and trained with him in the studio of Emile Auguste Carolus-Duran (1838-1917) in Paris in the mid-1870s. The model in the present painting, named Demetriki and called 'Tito,' was of Greek heritage. He appears in various other works of the period, including a drawing by Sargent (Rhode Island School of Design), a watercolor portrait by Lord Leighton's friend Constance Phillott (1842-1931), and another painting by Beckwith entitled The Falconer, also dated 1878. In Portrait of Tito, the forthright depiction of the young man's chiseled face and decorative headband-while paying homage to Classical Greek imagery-is representative of the kind of Realist portraiture achieved by Beckwith and Sargent during their Paris Salon years together.