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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1937.11.22
People
John Singer Sargent, American (Florence, Italy 1856 - 1925 London, England)
Title
Study of a Boy, for Israel, "Israel and the Law," Boston Public Library
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
album page, drawing
Date
1895 - 1916
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/198556

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Charcoal on blue laid paper
Dimensions
61.1 x 46 cm (24 1/16 x 18 1/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: l.r., red pencil: 22
  • watermark: [design of shield with letter C; caduceus; letter F] [in script:] Ingres 1865

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
1937.11.22
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Sheet also has another, smaller sketch of the boy's head.

Publication History

  • Sally M. Promey, "Sargent's Truncated Triumph: Art and Religion at the Boston Public Library", The Art Bulletin, College Art Association of America (June 1997), vol. 79, no. 2, pp. 217-250, reproduced in b/w, p. 244, fig. 30
  • Sally M. Promey, Painting Religion in Public: John Singer Sargent's "Triumph of Religion" at the Boston Public Library, Princeton University Press (Princeton, NJ, 1999), p. 221, fig. 111
  • 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), cat. no. 5, repr. on cover, pp. 7-8

Exhibition History

  • The Evocative Line: Preparatory Sketches for "Israel and the Law" by John Singer Sargent, Vose Galleries of Boston, Inc., Boston, 09/01/2004 - 10/16/2004

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