1937.7.2.21: Dying Gladiator, after the Antique; Two Sketches of Antinous, after the Antique

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1937.7.2.21

People

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

Title

Dying Gladiator, after the Antique; Two Sketches of Antinous, after the Antique

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

sketchbook page, drawing

Date

1869

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/198470

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Graphite on off-white wove paper

Dimensions

15.2 x 24.2 cm (6 x 9 1/2 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: u.r.c., red-brown ink: 21
• inscription: center right, graphite, in artist's hand: From the Villa Volkonsksy / April 14th / Rome / 1869 / Dying Gladiator / Capitol / Rome
• inscription: verso, l.l., graphite, in artist's hand: Antinous / Capitol / Rome

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

1937.7.2.21

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Bruce Robertson, ed., Sargent and Italy, exh. cat., Los Angeles County Museum of Art/Princeton University Press (Los Angeles, CA and Princeton, NJ, 2002), p. 101

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