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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1937.7.21.7
People
John Singer Sargent, American (Florence, Italy 1856 - 1925 London, England)
Title
Two Studies for a Portrait of Robert Louis Stevenson
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing, sketchbook page
Date
1885
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/198114

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Charcoal on darkened off-white wove paper
Dimensions
24.7 x 34.6 cm (9 3/4 x 13 5/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: u.r.c., red-brown ink: 7

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
1937.7.21.7
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. 124, Check List of Sargent's Portraits
  • Carter Ratcliff, John Singer Sargent, Abbeville Press (New York, 1982), p. 102, fig. 143
  • Richard Ormond and Elaine Kilmurray, John Singer Sargent: The Early Portraits, Yale University Press (New Haven, CT and London, England, 1998), pp. 167 - 169; repr. in b/w p. 168, fig. 69
  • Leslie Furth, "John Singer Sargent and Robert Louis Stevenson", The Magazine Antiques (November 2004), pp. 160-167, pp. 162-163, fig. 5
  • Alison Syme, A Touch of Blossom: John Singer Sargent and the Queer Flora of Fin-de-Siecle Art (University Park, PA, 2010), p. 214, fig. 184
  • Richard Ormond and Elaine Kilmurray, John Singer Sargent: Figures and Landscapes, 1883-1899, Yale University Press (U.S.) (New Haven and London, 2010), p. 120
  • Elizabeth Doe Stone, "Mobility and the Matter of Memory: John Singer Sargent's 'Robert Louis Stevenson and His Wife'", Art History (March 2019), pp. 1-25, p. 9, pl. 5

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