1937.7.28.5: Study for the Head of the Synagogue, Boston Public Library

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1937.7.28.5

People

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

Title

Study for the Head of the Synagogue, Boston Public Library

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

sketchbook page, drawing

Date

1895-1919

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/198679

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Graphite on off-white wove paper

Dimensions

19.1 x 25.3 x 1.2 cm (7 1/2 x 9 15/16 x 1/2 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: l.r., red-brown ink: 5

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

1937.7.28.5

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Trevor J. Fairbrother, John Singer Sargent and America, Garland Publishing, Inc. (New York, NY, 1986), pp. 256, 276 note 62
• 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. 242, fig. 28
• 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. 240, fig. 124

Related Works

• 1937.7.28

  John Singer Sargent

  Sketchbook: Mural and Figure Studies

  Drawings

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