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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1937.7.21.9
People
John Singer Sargent, American (Florence, Italy 1856 - 1925 London, England)
Title
Study of a Woman; Two Seated Figures; verso: Studies for of a Spanish Dancer; Bearded Man with Pipe
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing, sketchbook page
Date
c. 1880-81
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/198391

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Graphite on darkened off-white wove paper
Dimensions
25.5 x 34 cm (10 1/16 x 13 3/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: u.r.c., red-brown ink: 9

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
1937.7.21.9
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
This page is slightly larger than the others in this book, and the sheet is loose.

Publication History

  • Warren Adelson and Elizabeth Oustinoff, "Sargent's Spanish Dancer: A Discovery", The Magazine Antiques (March 1992), vol. CXLI, no. 3, pp. 460-471, verso reproduced, p. 467, fig. 9
  • Mary Crawford Volk, John Singer Sargent's El Jaleo, exh. cat., National Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C, 1992), verso: catalogue no. 23, p. 164, reproduced in color
  • Richard Ormond and Elaine Kilmurray, John Singer Sargent: Figures and Landscapes, 1874-1882, Yale University Press (New Haven and London, 2006), pp. 230, 262, fig. 134 (verso)

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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