1937.7.30.5: Sketches for "Hell" Lunette, Boston Public Library (?) (recto and verso)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1937.7.30.5

People

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

Title

Sketches for "Hell" Lunette, Boston Public Library (?) (recto and verso)

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

sketchbook page, drawing

Date

c. 1903-1916

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/195030

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Graphite on off-white wove paper

Dimensions

30.5 x 48.9 cm (12 x 19 1/4 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: u.l., red-brown ink: 5
• inscription: right side, graphite, in artist's hand: Radius of small sketch 30 inch.

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

To the artist's sisters, Violet (Mrs. Francis) Ormond and Emily Sargent, at his death, 1925; gift of Mrs. Ormond to the Fogg Art Museum, 1937.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Mrs. Francis Ormond

Accession Year

1937

Object Number

1937.7.30.5

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Angela Chang, Glenn Gates, Teri Hensick, Philip Klausmeyer, Miriam Stewart, Kate Olivier, Ruxandra Stoicescu, and Carol Troyen, John Singer Sargent's 'Triumph of Religion' at the Boston Public Library: Creation and Restoration, ed. Narayan Khandekar, Gianfranco Pocobene, and Kate Smith, Harvard Art Museum and Yale University Press (Cambridge/New Haven and London, 2009), p. 125, fig. 5.9 (verso)

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