1937.7.20.11: Compositional Study for "The Wyndham Sisters;" verso: Female Figure with Pedestal?

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1937.7.20.11

People

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

Title

Compositional Study for "The Wyndham Sisters;" verso: Female Figure with Pedestal?

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing, sketchbook page

Date

c. 1895-1901

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/195246

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Graphite on off-white wove paper; verso: charcoal

Dimensions

22.9 x 29.7 cm (9 x 11 11/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: u.r., red-brown ink: 11

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

1937.7.20.11

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

The Harvard Art Museums encourage the use of images found on this website for personal, noncommercial use, including educational and scholarly purposes. To request a higher resolution file of this image, please submit an online request.

Publication History

• Richard Ormond, John Singer Sargent: Paintings, Drawings, Watercolors, Harper & Row (New York, NY and London, England, 1970), recto: p. 252
• Carter Ratcliff, John Singer Sargent, Abbeville Press (New York, 1982), verso, p. 172, fig. 251
• Richard Ormond and Elaine Kilmurray, John Singer Sargent: Portraits of the 1890s, Yale University Press (New Haven, CT and London, England, 2002), p. 156, fig. 103, under no. 368

Related Works

• 1937.7.20

  John Singer Sargent

  Sketchbook: Portrait Sketches

  Drawings

Verification Level