1994.168: Study for "History," Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1994.168

People

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

Title

Study for "History," Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting

Date

1916 - 1921

Places

Creation Place: North America, United States

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/226699

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

114.3 x 114.3 cm (45 x 45 in.)
framed: 118.1 x 118.1 x 3.8 cm (46 1/2 x 46 1/2 x 1 1/2 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

To the artist's sisters, Violet (Mrs. Francis) Ormond and Emily Sargent, at his death, 1925; gift of Violet Ormond to the School of Architecture [later part of Graduate School of Design], Harvard University, c. 1930; transferred to the Harvard University Art Museums, 1994.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Transfer from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design (assumed to be a Gift of Emily Sargent and Violet Ormond in memory of their brother, John Singer Sargent)

Accession Year

1994

Object Number

1994.168

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Descriptions

Description

See related Fogg Art Museum drawings: 1931.166, 1931.167, 1929.299.

Publication History

• "Corporation Records", Harvard Graduates' Magazine, Harvard University (Cambridge, MA, March 1931), vol. XXXIX, p. 363
• 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. 339-40, cat. 357, ill. p. 340
• Nathaniel Silver, Boston's Apollo: Thomas McKeller and John Singer Sargent, exh. cat., Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 2020), p. 179

Exhibition History

• The Sargent Collection of Studies and Preliminary Work for Decorations in the Boston Public Library and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, 05/01/1927 - 12/31/1927

Subjects and Contexts

• Collection Highlights
• Google Art Project

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