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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1937.7.1.3
People
John Singer Sargent, American (Florence, Italy 1856 - 1925 London, England)
After Antonio Canova, Italian (Possagno, Italy 1757 - 1822 Venice, Italy)
Title
Perseus, after Canova
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
sketchbook page, drawing
Date
1868 - 1869
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/198681

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Graphite on off-white wove paper
Dimensions
29.1 x 19.2 cm (11 7/16 x 7 9/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: l.l., graphite: 3
  • inscription: l.r., brown ink: 3
  • inscription: l.r., graphite, in artist's hand: Perseus by Canova / in the Vatican / 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
1937.7.1.3
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Marjorie Shelley, "'Splendid Mountain,' a Sketchbook by the Young John Singer Sargent", Metropolitan Museum Journal (New York, NY, 1993), vol. 28, pp. 185-205, p. 205, note 25
  • Stephanie Herdrich and Helen Barbara Weinberg, American Drawings and Watercolors in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: John Singer Sargent, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, NY, 2000), p. 51, under no. 9e
  • 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, n. 8
  • Richard Ormond and Elaine Kilmurray, John Singer Sargent: Figures and Landscapes, 1900-1907, Yale University Press (U.S.) (New Haven and London, 2012), fig. 116, p. 241
  • Nathaniel Silver, Boston's Apollo: Thomas McKeller and John Singer Sargent, exh. cat., Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 2020), p. 115 note 3

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