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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1933.45.D
People
John Singer Sargent, American (Florence, Italy 1856 - 1925 London, England)
Title
Study for Coronation of the Virgin Roundel, South End, Sargent Hall, Boston Public Library
Classification
Sculpture
Work Type
sculpture, relief
Date
1893 - 1903
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/226531

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Painted plaster
Dimensions
52.7 x 49.9 x 5.7 cm (20 3/4 x 19 5/8 x 2 1/4 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
To the artist's sisters, Violet (Mrs. Francis) Ormond and Emily Sargent, at his death, 1925; their gift to the Fogg Art Museum, 1933.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Miss Emily Sargent and Mrs. Francis Ormond, in memory of their brother, John Singer Sargent (through Thomas A. Fox, Esq.)
Accession Year
1933
Object Number
1933.45.D
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Exhibition of Works by the Late John S. Sargent, R. A., exh. cat., Royal Academy of Arts (London, England, 1926), no. 601
  • Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr., Virginia Anderson, and Kimberly Orcutt, ed., American Paintings at Harvard, Volume Two, Paintings, Drawings, Pastels and Stained Glass by Artists Born 1826-1856, Harvard Art Museums and Yale University Press (U.S.) (Cambridge, MA and New Haven, CT, 2008), p. 313, cat. 333, ill.
  • A Rediscovered Maquette by John Singer Sargent for the Crucifix at the Boston Public Library, auct. cat., Shepherd Gallery (New York, 2017), passim

Exhibition History

  • Exhibition of Works by the Late John S. Sargent, R.A., Royal Academy of Arts, London, 01/14/1926 - 03/13/1926

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