1937.11.64: Female Head in Lost Profile
Drawings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1937.11.64
- People
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John Singer Sargent, American (Florence, Italy 1856 - 1925 London, England)
- Title
- Female Head in Lost Profile
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing, album page
- Date
- 1895 - 1916
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/196242
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Charcoal on blue laid paper
- Dimensions
- 62 x 46.6 cm (24 7/16 x 18 3/8 in.)
- Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: l.r., red pencil: 64
- watermark: INGRES / FRANCE [with letters JA in oval]
Provenance
- Recorded Ownership History
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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
- 1937.11.64
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- David McKibbin, Sargent's Boston, exh. cat., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston, MA, 1956), p. 111, Check List of Sargent's Portraits
- Mary Crawford Volk, The Evocative Line: Preparatory Sketches for "Israel and the Law" by John Singer Sargent, exh. cat., Vose Galleries of Boston, Inc. (Boston, MA, 2004), fig. 3, pp. 7-8, note 21
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