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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.1815.20.10.A
People
John Singer Sargent, American (Florence, Italy 1856 - 1925 London, England)
After Michelangelo Buonarroti, Italian (Caprese, Italy 1475 - 1564 Rome, Italy)
Title
Medici Chapel, after Michelangelo; verso: Egyptian Heads; Miscellaneous Sketches
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
album page, drawing
Date
1906 - 1913
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/194765

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black ink on off-white wove paper (recto and verso)
Dimensions
20.6 x 25.8 cm (8 1/8 x 10 3/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: black ink, lower edge: J.S.S.
  • inscription: lower edge, black ink, signed, in artist's hand: To my friend David / J. S. S.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
John Singer Sargent, gift; to David Murray, London, sold; [through Christie’s, London, May 28, 1934, lot 2], sold; [to Martin Birnbaum], gift; to Grenville L. Winthrop, 1935, bequeathed; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943

A number of the drawings in this album were given to Murray (a Scottish landscape painter and Royal Academician, 1849-1933) by Sargent. Murray lived at 1A Langham Chambers, Portland Place, London.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.1815.20.10.A
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
The sketch was made on Royal Academy letterhead; in red, it is printed "Royal Academy of Arts / London, W. / 190__" The side that is folded in is more finished and thus was considered during cataloguing to be the recto.

Publication History

  • Stephanie Herdrich and Helen Barbara Weinberg, American Drawings and Watercolors in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: John Singer Sargent, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, NY, 2000), pp. 100-101, under no. 18

Exhibition History

  • Drawing on Tradition: The Lost Legacy of Academic Figure Studies, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/19/1994 - 01/29/1995

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