1937.7.33.5: Sketches of Soldiers in Rain Capes; verso: Sketches of Soldiers at Rest

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1937.7.33.5

People

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

Title

Sketches of Soldiers in Rain Capes; verso: Sketches of Soldiers at Rest

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

sketchbook page, drawing

Date

1918

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/195119

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Graphite on off-white wove paper

Dimensions

25.6 x 35.6 cm (10 1/16 x 14 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

1937.7.33.5

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Miriam Stewart and Kerry Schauber, "Catalogue of Sketchbooks and Albums by John Singer Sargent at the Fogg Art Museum", Harvard University Art Museums Bulletin (Cambridge, MA, Fall 1999 - Winter 2000), vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 16-38, verso repr. p. 33
• Richard Ormond and Elaine Kilmurray, John Singer Sargent: Figures and Landscapes, 1914-1925, Yale University Press (New Haven, 2016), recto: p. 242

Exhibition History

• Sargent in the Studio: Drawings, Sketchbooks, and Oil Sketches, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 06/10/1999 - 09/26/1999

Related Works

• 1937.7.33.1-15

  John Singer Sargent

  Sketchbook: Soldiers

  Drawings

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