1942.23: Tamara Karsavina in the Title Role of "Thamar"

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1942.23

People

John Singer Sargent, American (Florence, Italy 1856 - 1925 London, England)

Title

Tamara Karsavina in the Title Role of "Thamar"

Other Titles

Former Title: Portrait of Madame Karsavina as Thamar

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

c. 1911-1912

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/307847

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Charcoal heightened with white chalk on white paper

Dimensions

59.7 × 45.2 cm (23 1/2 × 17 13/16 in.)
frame: 88.9 × 67.3 cm (35 × 26 1/2 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: charcoal, l.l.: To Lady Ripon/ John S. Sargent
• label: back of frame, paper: 5981.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Lady Ripon; [Scott & Fowles, New York], sold; to Grenville L. Winthrop, 1924, gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1942.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Grenville L. Winthrop, Class of 1886

Accession Year

1942

Object Number

1942.23

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Martin Birnbaum, John Singer Sargent, January 12, 1856-April 15, 1925: A Conversation, William E. Rudge's Sons (New York, NY, 1941), p. 52, repr.
• "Alumni Notes", Harvard Alumni Bulletin (Cambridge, MA, February 7, 1942), reproduced p. 318
• David McKibbin, Sargent's Boston, exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston, MA, 1956), p. 104, Check List of Sargent's Portraits
• Vojtech Jirat-Wasiutynski and Thea Jirat-Wasiutynski, "The Uses of Charcoal in Drawing", Arts Magazine (October 1980), vol. 55, no. 2, pp. 128-135, p. 131, fig. 8
• Trevor J. Fairbrother, Sargent Portrait Drawings: 42 Works by John Singer Sargent, Dover Publications Inc. (New York, NY, 1983), cat. 20
• Jane Dini, "The Artist as Choreographer: Sargent's Murals at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston", American Art (Fall 2002), vol. 16, no. 3, pp. 11-29, p. 18-19, repr. fig. 8
• Richard Ormond and Elaine Kilmurray, John Singer Sargent: The Later Portraits, Yale University Press (New Haven CT and London England, 2003), under no. 490

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