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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1937.7.28.4
People
John Singer Sargent, American (Florence, Italy 1856 - 1925 London, England)
Title
Studies of Staff Heads and Profile Study, for the Synagogue, Boston Public Library; verso: Three Studies for the Synagogue's Crown
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
sketchbook page, drawing
Date
1895-1919
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/198706

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Graphite on off-white wove paper
Dimensions
19.1 x 25.3 cm (7 1/2 x 9 15/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: u.r., red-brown ink: 4

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
1937.7.28.4
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Verso drawing is vertically oriented.

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. 37
  • "The Afterlives of Sargent's 'Prophets'", Art Journal (Spring 1998), vol. 57, no. 1, pp. 31-44, p. 44, note 12
  • Elaine Kilmurray and Richard Ormond, John Singer Sargent, exh. cat., Tate Gallery Publishing Limited (London, England, 1998), p. 205, under no. 97
  • Miriam Stewart and Kerry Schauber, "Catalogue of Sketchbooks and Albums by John Singer Sargent at the Fogg Art Museum", Harvard University Art Museums Bulletin (Cambridge, MA, Fall 1999 - Winter 2000), vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 16-38, verso repr. p. 31
  • 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. 223, fig. 114

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