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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1937.11.66
People
John Singer Sargent, American (Florence, Italy 1856 - 1925 London, England)
Title
Head of a Woman (Beatrice Stuart)
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
album page, drawing
Date
c. 1903-1909
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/196922

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Charcoal on cream laid paper
Dimensions
62 x 47 cm (24 7/16 x 18 1/2 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: l.r., red pencil: 66
  • watermark: MICHALLET / FRANCE
  • inscription: lower edge, charcoal, in artist's hand: Miss Beatrice Stuart / 11 Connaught St. W.

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
1937.11.66
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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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. 31, pp. 7-8, note 21
  • 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. 128, fig. 5.22

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