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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1937.7.24.5
People
John Singer Sargent, American (Florence, Italy 1856 - 1925 London, England)
Title
Sketch of a Studio Interior with Reclining Figure; verso: Sketches of a Spanish Dancer
Other Titles
Former Title: Sketch of an Artist and a Reclining Model; verso: Sketches of a Dancer
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing, sketchbook page
Date
c. 1880-1881
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/195080

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Graphite on off-white wove paper (recto and verso)
Dimensions
26 x 35.2 cm (10 1/4 x 13 7/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: u.r., red-brown ink: 5

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
1937.7.24.5
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Warren Adelson and Elizabeth Oustinoff, "Sargent's Spanish Dancer: A Discovery", The Magazine Antiques (March 1992), vol. CXLI, no. 3, pp. 460-471, verso reproduced, p. 466-7, fig. 6
  • Mary Crawford Volk, John Singer Sargent's El Jaleo, exh. cat., National Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C, 1992), catalogue no. 22, p. 162, both recto and verso reproduced
  • Richard Ormond and Elaine Kilmurray, John Singer Sargent: Figures and Landscapes, 1874-1882, Yale University Press (New Haven and London, 2006), pp. 230, 261-261, fig. 133 (verso), fig. 135 (recto)
  • Sarah Cash, Elaine Kilmurray, and Richard Ormond, Sargent & Spain, exh. cat., National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC, 2022), cat. no. 16 (verso), repr., p. 243

Exhibition History

  • John Singer Sargent's El Jaleo, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 03/01/1992 - 08/02/1992; Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, 09/10/1992 - 11/22/1992
  • Sargent & Spain, National Gallery of Art, 10/02/2022 - 01/02/2023; Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, 02/11/2023 - 05/14/2023

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