1937.7.27.2.A: Two Spanish Dancers; verso: Portrait of a Woman

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1937.7.27.2.A

People

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

Title

Two Spanish Dancers; verso: Portrait of a Woman

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing, album page

Date

c. 1879-80

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/198229

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Graphite on off-white wove paper

Dimensions

23.1 x 17.3 cm (9 1/8 x 6 13/16 in.)

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

1937.7.27.2.A

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Mary Crawford Volk, John Singer Sargent's El Jaleo, exh. cat., National Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C, 1992), catalogue no. 11, p. 144, reproduced in color
• Richard Ormond and Elaine Kilmurray, John Singer Sargent: Figures and Landscapes, 1874-1882, Yale University Press (New Haven and London, 2006), under no. 763, fig. 146 (recto)

Exhibition History

• John Singer Sargent's El Jaleo, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 03/01/1992 - 08/02/1992; Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, 09/10/1992 - 11/22/1992

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