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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1933.45.A-F
People
John Singer Sargent, American (Florence, Italy 1856 - 1925 London, England)
Title
Model for the Boston Public Library, South End
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1893 - 1903
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/192588

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on panel, with paper additions and cast plaster
Technique
Cast

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
To the artist's sisters, Violet (Mrs. Francis) Ormond and Emily Sargent, at his death, 1925; their gift to the Fogg Art Museum, 1933.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Miss Emily Sargent and Mrs. Francis Ormond, in memory of their brother, John Singer Sargent (through Thomas A. Fox, Esq.)
Accession Year
1933
Object Number
1933.45.A-F
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Exhibition of Works by the Late John S. Sargent, R. A., exh. cat., Royal Academy of Arts (London, England, 1926), no. 612
  • Edward Waldo Forbes, History of the Fogg Art Museum, Unpublished (1956), p. 152-153
  • Kate Olivier, "John Singer Sargent's Use of Scale Models for his 'Triumph of Religion' Murals (1890-1919) at the Boston Public Library", Harvard University Art Museums Bulletin (Cambridge, MA, Fall 1999 - Winter 2000), vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 39-51, p. 42, fig. 4
  • Ruxandra Stoicescu, "Underdrawings and Compositional Changes on John Singer Sargent's Triumph of Religion Murals at the Boston Public Library" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, 2003), Unpublished, pp. 1-31 passim
  • A Rediscovered Maquette by John Singer Sargent for the Crucifix at the Boston Public Library, auct. cat., Shepherd Gallery (New York, 2017), passim
  • John Thomas, Redemption Achieved: John Singer Sargent's "Crucifixion of Christ with Adam & Eve" and Its Place in His Work, Twin Books (Wolverhampton, 2017), p. 17

Exhibition History

  • Exhibition of Works by the Late John S. Sargent, R.A., Royal Academy of Arts, London, 01/14/1926 - 03/13/1926

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